CVE-2022-1872

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2022-1872 · Published 27/07/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-1872 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting chrome (google).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.58%, higher than 47.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 102.0.5005.61 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chrome google	`< 102.0.5005.61`	`102.0.5005.61`

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 102.0.5005.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass downloads policy via a crafted HTML page.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html · Release Notes
crbug.com/1310461 · Permissions Required
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

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chrome

google

< 102.0.5005.61

102.0.5005.61

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