CVE-2022-0609
Google Chromium Animation Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 1 March 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Use after free in Animation in Google Chrome prior to 98.0.4758.102 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 22.44% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 15 February 2022 · due 1 March 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS 22.4% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0609
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_14.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1296150Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_14.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1296150Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-0609US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.