CVE-2022-1486 Information disclosure in Chrome

What is CVE-2022-1486?

CVE-2022-1486 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 26 Jul 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 101.0.4951.41 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-843

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1486?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1486?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2022-1486 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1486 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome

• CVE-2022-4135 Google Chromium GPU Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16017 Google Chrome Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16010 Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-GX52652, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1486, GHSA-8477-jhrp-5h29, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1486.