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Microsoft Edge Chromium: CVE-2022-0605 Use after free in Webstore API

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Microsoft Edge Chromium: CVE-2022-0605 Use after free in Webstore API

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/17/2022
Created
02/18/2022
Added
02/17/2022
Modified
01/17/2023

Description

Use after free in Webstore API in Google Chrome prior to 98.0.4758.102 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension and convinced a user to enage in specific user interaction to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-edge-upgrade-latest

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