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CVE-2022-4135

Google Chromium GPU Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

KEVCRITICAL 9.6EPSS 31.9%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 19 December 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

Heap buffer overflow in GPU in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.121 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

CVSS 3.1
9.6 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
31.86% probability · 98th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Listed 28 November 2022 · due 19 December 2022
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
google/chrome · microsoft/edge · microsoft/edge chromium
Source
chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS trend
0%18%35%26 October 2026: 31.86%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 31.9% since 26 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/2022/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4135

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.