CVE-2022-3038
Published 2022-09-26 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2022-3038 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Google Chromium Network Service. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 30, 2023, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 20, 2023. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 76 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 76 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →Description
Use after free in Network Service in Google Chrome prior to 105.0.5195.52 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 Network Service
Name: Google Chromium Network Service Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Date added: 2023-03-30 · Due: 2023-04-20
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168596/Google-Chrome-103.0.5060.53-network-URLLoader-NotifyCompleted-Heap-Use-After-Free.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
- https://crbug.com/1340253
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-23
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168596/Google-Chrome-103.0.5060.53-network-URLLoader-NotifyCompleted-Heap-Use-After-Free.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
- https://crbug.com/1340253

