Google Chromium Mojo: vulnerability flaw under attack

What is affected

Google Chromium Mojo is found on ordinary personal computers and phones, so this is not only a problem for companies. If you use it and have not updated since the fix was released, you are exposed.

Google Chromium Mojo contains an insufficient data validation vulnerability that allows a remote attacker, who has compromised the renderer process, to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could affect multiple web browsers that utilize Chromium, including, but not limited to, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera.

What an attacker can do

This is a vulnerability flaw. It lets an attacker misuse the product in a way its maker did not intend. CISA lists it because attackers are confirmed to be using it against real systems.

How it is reached

Over the internet or network

Access the attacker needs

No account needed

Does the victim have to do something?

Yes, the victim must open or click something

What to do

1. Update Google Chromium Mojo now. Open the update or "About" screen, install whatever is offered and restart the app or device, because the fix is not active until you do.
2. Turn on automatic updates so the next fix arrives without you having to look for it.
3. If your device is too old to receive this update, stop using the affected app for anything sensitive and plan a replacement.

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vendor advisories and fixes

• chromereleases.googleblog.comchromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• msrc.microsoft.commsrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3075

How urgent is it

CISA added this vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on September 8, 2022, which means there is reliable evidence of attacks in the wild. US federal agencies must fix it by September 29, 2022, a deadline that has already passed. That deadline does not bind anyone else, but it shows how seriously the agency rates it.

The EPSS model estimates a 5.8% probability that this flaw will be exploited somewhere in the next 30 days. That is higher than 93% of all scored vulnerabilities.

Its CVSS severity score is 9.6 out of 10 (critical), as recorded in the US National Vulnerability Database.

Technical description

Insufficient data validation in Mojo in Google Chrome prior to 105.0.5195.102 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.