CVE-2021-30560 (GCVE-0-2021-30560)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-03 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-05 16:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Use after free in Blink XSLT in Google Chrome prior to 91.0.4472.164 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:32 UTC
CWE
- Use after free
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/07/sta… | |
| https://crbug.com/1219209 | |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5216 | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022… | mailing-list |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-23 | vendor-advisory |
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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