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CVE-2022-0799 (GCVE-0-2022-0799)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-05 00:25 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:40
VLAI
Summary
Insufficient policy enforcement in Installer in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 99.0.4844.51 allowed a remote attacker to perform local privilege escalation via a crafted offline installer file.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1279188 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 99.0.4844.51 (custom)
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