CVE-2022-3038
Google Chromium Network Service Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 20 April 2023). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Use after free in Network Service in Google Chrome prior to 105.0.5195.52 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
- 24.93% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 30 March 2023 · due 20 April 2023
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- google/chrome · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS 24.9% 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://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3038
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168596/Google-Chrome-103.0.5060.53-network-URLLoader-NotifyCompleted-Heap-Use-After-Free.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1340253Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/Mailing List
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-23Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168596/Google-Chrome-103.0.5060.53-network-URLLoader-NotifyCompleted-Heap-Use-After-Free.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1340253Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/Mailing List
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-23Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-3038US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.