Use after free in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 99.0.4844.74 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extensi…

published 2022-07-21 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-15969

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use after free in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 99.0.4844.74 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3 links 1

Google Chrome 99.0.4844.74

debian ubuntu opensuse

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 99.0.4844.74-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0972

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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0972

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

crbug.com/1301320 advisory

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-2022-0972 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Use after free in Extensions

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

0.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

crbug.com https://crbug.com/1301320 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

CWE-416 Use After Free

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

crbug.com /1301320
exploit, issue-tracking, patch, vendor-advisory
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202208-25
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_15.html
release-notes, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-0972
NVD CVE-2022-0972

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.

Summary