How severe is CVE-2022-2294?

CVE-2022-2294 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 70.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2022-2294: WebRTC Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

WebRTC Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-08-25

Remediation due

2022-09-15

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://groups.google.com/g/discuss-webrtc/c/5KBtZx2gvcQ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2294

Description

Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 103.0.5060.114 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 17, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2022-2294 to the KEV catalog 28 days after its CVE record was published.
Its current EPSS score (70.8%) is higher than that of 58% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Google	Google Chrome	unspecified to <103.0.5060.114

References

8 Links

Vendor advisories

Mailing lists

[oss-security] 20220728 WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2022-0007

Other references

Record Details

Published

2022-07-28

Last updated

2026-08-04

Assigner (CNA)

Chrome

Credited to

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