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CVE-2022-2294

91
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2294 is a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in WebRTC, affecting Google Chrome and other products utilizing WebRTC like Apple, Fedora, and WebKitGTK. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) allows a remote attacker to achieve heap corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, including in known ransomware campaigns, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite no public exploit code being available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 103.0.5060.114CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.36.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webkitgtk:webkitgtk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
70.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Aug 25, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7046 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 14,855 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)Fixed in: 103.0.1264.49
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Jul/CVE-2022-2294

Chromium: CVE-2022-2294 Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC

Jul 12, 2022

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2022/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1341043
Permissions Required
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5BQRTR4SIUNIHLLPWTGYSDNQK7DYCRSB
Broken Link
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H2C4XOJVIILDXTOSMWJXHSQNEXFWSOD7
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-35
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-39
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202311-11
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/07/28/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory