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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-4179 json

Use after free in Audio in Google Chrome prior to 108.0.5359.71 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension t…

published 2022-11-29 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-51540

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use after free in Audio in Google Chrome prior to 108.0.5359.71 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: High)

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 108.0.5359.71
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 108.0.5359.71-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4179

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4179

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 108.0.5359.71-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP4, Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.4 +1 more 108.0.5359.71-bp154.2.49.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12545-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2022:10229-1

  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.17 5.15.11-r9
  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +3 more 5.15.11-r10

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-4179

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-2022-4179 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Use after free in Audio

  • 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

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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.