CVE-2022-1872: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 102.0.5005.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass downloads policy via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 102.0.5005.61 (fixed in 102.0.5005.61)

Published 2022-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.