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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-2998 in the critical feed json

Use after free in Browser Creation in Google Chrome prior to 104.0.5112.101 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced a user to engage in…

published 2022-09-26 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-35213

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
30.3%
EPSS 30.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use after free in Browser Creation in Google Chrome prior to 104.0.5112.101 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced a user to engage in a specific UI interaction to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 104.0.5112.101
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 104.0.5112.101-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2998

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 104.0.5112.101-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2998

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

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-2022-2998 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Use after free in Browser Creation

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
17 mo ago

Exploit prediction

30.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

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