Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202208-25 (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, QtWebEngine: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and its derivatives. Please review the CVE     identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Microsoft Edge installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 100.0.1185.29. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the April 1, 2022 advisory.

  - Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from     CVE-2022-26891, CVE-2022-26894, CVE-2022-26895, CVE-2022-26900, CVE-2022-26908, CVE-2022-26909,     CVE-2022-26912. (CVE-2022-24475)

  - Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Spoofing Vulnerability. (CVE-2022-24523)

  - Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from     CVE-2022-24475, CVE-2022-26894, CVE-2022-26895, CVE-2022-26900, CVE-2022-26908, CVE-2022-26909,     CVE-2022-26912. (CVE-2022-26891)

  - Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from     CVE-2022-24475, CVE-2022-26891, CVE-2022-26895, CVE-2022-26900, CVE-2022-26908, CVE-2022-26909,     CVE-2022-26912. (CVE-2022-26894)

  - Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from     CVE-2022-24475, CVE-2022-26891, CVE-2022-26894, CVE-2022-26900, CVE-2022-26908, CVE-2022-26909,     CVE-2022-26912. (CVE-2022-26895)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
164112	GLSA-202208-25 : Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, QtWebEngine: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
159465	Microsoft Edge (Chromium) < 100.0.1185.29 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2022-26912

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

high