Vulnerability CVE-2022-0799
Published: 2022-04-05

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-269

 (Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Google -> Chrome 

 References:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1279188
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