CVE-2022-0609
Published 2022-04-05 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2022-0609 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Google Chromium Animation. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on February 15, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by March 1, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 75 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 75 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →Description
Use after free in Animation in Google Chrome prior to 98.0.4758.102 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Google — Chromium Animation
Name: Google Chromium Animation Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-02-15 · Due: 2022-03-01
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_14.html
- https://crbug.com/1296150
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_14.html
- https://crbug.com/1296150
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-0609