CVE-2022-4135: Google Chromium GPU Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

Google Chromium GPU contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a remote attacker, who has compromised the renderer process, to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could affect multiple web browsers that utilize Chromium, including, but not limited to, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4135

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-787. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4135
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog