CVE-2022-0097: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2022-0097 is a security vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's DevTools implementation prior to version 97.0.4692.71. The vulnerability was reported by David Erceg on August 17, 2020, and was officially disclosed on January 4, 2022. This security issue affects the DevTools component of Google Chrome browsers (Chrome Release).

The vulnerability is characterized as an inappropriate implementation in DevTools that could allow an attacker to potentially escape the sandbox environment through a crafted HTML page. The issue was deemed significant enough to warrant a $10,000 bug bounty reward, indicating its severity. The vulnerability was tracked under bug ID 1117173 (Chrome Release).

The vulnerability could potentially allow a malicious extension to escape the browser's sandbox environment when a user is convinced to install the extension and visit a specially crafted HTML page. This could potentially lead to unauthorized access to resources outside the intended sandbox boundaries (NVD).

The vulnerability was patched in Google Chrome version 97.0.4692.71. Users and administrators are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the risk. The fix was included in the January 4, 2022 stable channel update for desktop (Chrome Release).