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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-0971 json

Use after free in Blink Layout in Google Chrome on Android prior to 99.0.4844.74 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer…

published 2022-07-21 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-15968

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use after free in Blink Layout in Google Chrome on Android prior to 99.0.4844.74 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 99.0.4844.74
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 99.0.4844.74-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0971

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 99.0.4844.84-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0971

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 99.0.4844.74-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 99.0.4844.74-bp153.2.69.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11932-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2022:0085-1

  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.15 5.15.3_git20211127-r5
  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +5 more 5.15.3_git20220407-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-0971

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0971 updated cvss 9.6

chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink Layout

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • crbug.com https://crbug.com/1299422 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.