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CVE-2022-2856
Google Chromium Intents Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability
KEVMEDIUM 6.5EPSS 4.53%
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Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 8 September 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents in Google Chrome on Android prior to 104.0.5112.101 allowed a remote attacker to arbitrarily browse to a malicious website via a crafted HTML page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 4.53% probability · 91th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Listed 18 August 2022 · due 8 September 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- google/chrome · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2856
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.htmlPatch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1345630Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/Mailing List
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.htmlPatch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1345630Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/Mailing List
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-2856US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.