CVE-2022-0290 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 97.0.4692.99, specifically impacting the Site Isolation feature. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially achieve a sandbox escape through a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 9.6, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring user interaction (UI:R) but allowing an unauthenticated attacker (AV:N, PR:N) to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H, I:H, A:H). While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No, Hot List: Inactive) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 97.0.4692.99CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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