CVE-2022-0972

high

Description

Use after free in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 99.0.4844.74 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25

https://crbug.com/1301320

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_15.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-07-21

Updated: 2022-10-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High