Heap buffer overflow
A write runs past allocated heap storage and can damage neighbouring data.
CWE-122 · CISA KEV
Video course · Free course. C programming and memory concepts are useful; covers several weakness types.
Security news, read and ranked every 30 minutes.
Exploited. On CISA's list since 2022-08-25, and used by ransomware.
CVE-2022-2294 · WebRTC WebRTC · Published 2022-07-28
8.8 out of 10
CVSS rates it high.
71%
Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, among the top 1% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).
Yes
CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 1506 days ago (2022-09-15).
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
WebRTC, an open-source project providing web browsers with real-time communication, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability that allows an attacker to perform shellcode execution. This vulnerability impacts web browsers using WebRTC including but not limited to Google Chrome.
Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 103.0.5060.114 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
From the NVD.
Explore this week’s weaknesses and all learning topics
Understand the kind of weakness behind this flaw. These resources teach the weakness, rather than reproduce this specific CVE. Follow the vendor's advice above to fix the affected product.
A write runs past allocated heap storage and can damage neighbouring data.
CWE-122 · CISA KEV
Video course · Free course. C programming and memory concepts are useful; covers several weakness types.
A program writes outside the memory region it is allowed to use.
CWE-787 · NVD record: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0; NVD record: nvd@nist.gov
Video course · Free course. C programming and memory concepts are useful; covers several weakness types.
CWE is a catalogue of weakness types. Labels come from the sources shown and can differ or change. Resource matches reviewed 16 October 2026.
No story in the last 14 days has mentioned it.
Exploited flaws from CISA's KEV catalogue. Chance of exploitation from EPSS by FIRST. Descriptions and scores from the NVD. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.