CVE-2022-2856 Google Chromium Intents Insufficient Input Validation

What is CVE-2022-2856?

CVE-2022-2856 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Sep 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 Intents in Google Chrome on Android prior to 104.0.5112.101 allowed a remote attacker to arbitrarily browse to a malicious website via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2856?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2856?

Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 8 Sep 2022.

Is CVE-2022-2856 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2022-2856 in the wild since at least 18 Aug 2022.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2856, GHSA-hq6m-mwgx-2pr8, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2856.