How severe is CVE-2022-2856?

CVE-2022-2856 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). EPSS estimates a 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2022-2856: Google Chromium Intents Insufficient Input Validation

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google Chromium Intents Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-08-18

Remediation due

2022-09-08

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2856

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA6.5 MEDIUM

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impactpartial

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2022-2856 to the KEV catalog 39 days before its CVE record was published.
It is one of 75 Google entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 21 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (4.6%) is higher than that of 17% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Google	Google Chrome	unspecified to <104.0.5112.101

References

3 Links

Vendor advisories

FEDORA-2022-3f28aa88cf

Other references

Record Details

Published

2022-09-26

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

Chrome

Credited to

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