CVE-2022-2294
8.8, high Known exploited Used in ransomwareWebRTC Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 71% higher than 99.3% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 28 Jul 20224 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 25 Aug 2022 and links it to ransomware activity. US federal agencies had to remediate by 15 Sept 2022, a deadline that has passed.
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Description
Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 103.0.5060.114 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Details
- Vendor
- WebRTC
- Product
- Chrome
- Weakness
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 4 Aug 2026
- Assigner
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 9
Advisories 5
- openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2022/07/28/2 (opens in a new tab)
- chromereleases.googleblog.com /2022/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)
- security.gentoo.org /glsa/202208-35 (opens in a new tab)
- security.gentoo.org /glsa/202208-39 (opens in a new tab)
- security.gentoo.org /glsa/202311-11 (opens in a new tab)
Other references 4
- crbug.com /1341043 (opens in a new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5BQRTR4SIUNIHLLPWTGYSDNQK7DYCRSB/ (opens in a new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H2C4XOJVIILDXTOSMWJXHSQNEXFWSOD7/ (opens in a new tab)
- cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-2294 (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.