CVE-2022-3443
Google Chrome vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2022-3443 is a security vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's File System API prior to version 106.0.5249.62. The vulnerability was reported by Maciej Pulikowski and Konrad Chrząszcz on August 27, 2021, and was officially disclosed on September 27, 2022. This vulnerability affects the Chrome browser's File System API implementation (Chrome Release).

Technical details

The vulnerability is characterized as an insufficient data validation issue in the File System API of Google Chrome. Google assigned this vulnerability a Low severity rating, and it was awarded a bounty of $3,000. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (Ubuntu Security).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to bypass File System restrictions through a specially crafted HTML page. The impact is primarily focused on integrity with no effect on confidentiality or availability. The CVSS scoring indicates that while the vulnerability can be exploited over the network, it requires user interaction and can only cause low impact to system integrity (Ubuntu Security).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was fixed in Chrome version 106.0.5249.62. Users are advised to update their Chrome browsers to this version or later. The fix was also incorporated into various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (version 107.0.5304.87-0ubuntu11.18.04.1) and Debian 11 (version 106.0.5249.61-1~deb11u1) (Ubuntu Security, Debian Security).

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