High severity · published Feb 9, 2021
CVE-2021-21148
Google Chromium V8 Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
In wildKEV
8.8
CVSS
20%
EPSS
Yes
On KEV
Description
Heap buffer overflow in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.150 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)20.0% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildYes
CISA KEVListed Nov 3, 2021
Federal remediation dueNov 17, 2021
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CH
Chrome · Google
before 88.0.4324.150 · source: vendor, NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
CV
Chromium V8 · Google
All versions, or not specified · source: KEV
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21148
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21148
CISA KEV catalogue
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1170176
x_refsource_MISC
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_4.html
vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AUQSMNV7INLDDSD3RKI5S5EAULX2QC7P/
vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7ACWYJ74Z3YN2XH4QMUEGNBC3VXX464L/
vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4858
vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-08
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