Medium severity · published Nov 23, 2021
CVE-2021-38000
Google Chromium Intents Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
In wildKEV
6.1
CVSS
4.9%
EPSS
Yes
On KEV
Description
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents in Google Chrome on Android prior to 95.0.4638.69 allowed a remote attacker to arbitrarily browser to a malicious URL via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.9% · higher than 92% 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 95.0.4638.69 · source: vendor, NVD, CISA
AN
Android · Google
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
34 · source: NVD
CI
Chromium Intents · Google
All versions, or not specified · source: KEV
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38000
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38000
CISA KEV catalogue
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
x_refsource_MISC
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1249962
vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
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