CVE-2022-3842: google chrome Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-3842 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Use After Free vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 18.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 02-01-2023
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 22-10-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Use after free in Passwords in Google Chrome prior to 105.0.5195.125 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.