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CVE-2022-0115

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0115 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, affecting versions prior to 97.0.4692.71, as well as Fedora Project's Chrome and Fedora. It stems from an uninitialized use in the File API, allowing a remote attacker to achieve out-of-bounds memory access through a specially crafted HTML page. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including mention in Microsoft's January 2022 Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 97.0.4692.71CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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: 97.0.1072.55
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Jan/CVE-2022-0115

Chromium: CVE-2022-0115 Uninitialized Use in File API

Jan 11, 2022

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2022/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1268903
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5PAGL5M2KGYPN3VEQCRJJE6NA7D5YG5X
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KQJB6ZPRLKV6WCMX2PRRRQBFAOXFBK6B
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRWRAXAFR3JR7XCFWTHC2KALSZKWACCE