🛡️ CVE-2022-2296 on Debian — chromium

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Use after free in Chrome OS Shell in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 103.0.5060.114 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific user interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via direct UI interactions.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-2296 as tracked by Debian, for the package chromium. The fix is available in version 103.0.5060.114-1; earlier versions remain affected.

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.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2296 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

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2296 is recorded against 1 package.

  • chromium (fixed in 103.0.5060.114-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 July 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-2296 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-07-28
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
chromium — 103.0.5060.114-1

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