Threats / Google / CVE-2022-0609
CVE-2022-0609
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Google Chromium Animation vulnerability
Use-after-free vulnerability in Chromium Animation allows remote attackers to exploit heap corruption through crafted HTML, affecting Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A memory safety defect in animation handling enables remote code execution when users visit malicious web pages. The vulnerability has been observed in active exploitation and carries moderate exploit probability.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
11 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-02-15).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.23546 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Google, Chromium Animation. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-416 Use After Free — weakness family: Memory safety.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious HTML page that triggers animation code paths in the Chromium renderer.
Business
Users visiting untrusted websites face arbitrary code execution risk without additional user interaction.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I exploit the use-after-free condition to corrupt heap memory and gain control of execution flow.
Business
Attackers can achieve remote code execution within the browser sandbox, potentially escalating to system compromise.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I distribute the malicious page through compromised sites, ads, or social engineering to maximize victim exposure.
Business
Organizations face widespread browser compromise across their user base, enabling data theft and lateral movement.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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