CVE-2022-21930
Published: 11 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-21930 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Edge Chromium. Its CVSS base score is 4.2 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 26.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) contains a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-21930. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 4.2 with the vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating a network-reachable issue that requires user interaction and imposes high attack complexity while limiting impact to partial confidentiality and integrity loss.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability by convincing a user to interact with malicious content, such as a crafted web page, thereby achieving limited code execution or data manipulation within the browser process. No privileges are needed beyond the victim's user context, and the scope remains unchanged.
Microsoft security advisories at the listed MSRC URLs describe available updates and mitigation steps for affected Edge installations. The EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.0625 on 2025-01-22 before receding to the current value of 0.0077, indicating a later surge in exploitation interest after the original 2022 disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-27086
Vulnerability details
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.