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CVE-2022-2859

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2859 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the Chrome OS Shell, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 104.0.5112.101, as well as Fedora Project's Chrome and Fedora distributions. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, if a user is tricked into specific UI interactions. While the CVSS score is 8.8 (HIGH), there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 104.0.5112.101CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0080 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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 (1)

googlepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
PatchRelease NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1338412
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE