CVE-2021-21146 (GCVE-0-2021-21146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-09 14:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:01
VLAI
Summary
Use after free in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.146 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
9.6 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Use after free
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1161705 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-08 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 88.0.4324.146 (custom)
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