CVE-2022-2479 Information disclosure in Chrome

What is CVE-2022-2479?

CVE-2022-2479 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 28 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

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in File in Google Chrome on Android prior to 103.0.5060.134 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious app to obtain potentially sensitive information from internal file directories via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2479?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2479?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2022-2479 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2479 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-WS76335, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2479, GHSA-pmv2-vq2x-c74g, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2479.