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🛡️ CVE-2022-0098 — chrome

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-416 NVD
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Description

Use after free in Screen Capture in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 97.0.4692.71 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to perform specific user gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific user gestures.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0098 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0098 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • chrome (fixed in 97.0.4692.71)
  • fedora

Timeline and source

Published on 12 February 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com
crbug.com
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
chromereleases.googleblog.com
crbug.com
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org

Other advisories for this package

chrome has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-416: Use After Free) in other software:

CVE-2022-0098 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-02-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
chrome — 97.0.4692.71
fedora — —

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://crbug.com/1273609
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://crbug.com/1273609

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