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FKIE_CVE-2021-38000

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-11-23 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:01
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.htmlRelease Notes
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/1249962Exploit, Issue Tracking
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/Release Notes
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.htmlRelease Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crbug.com/1249962Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-38000US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google chrome *
google android -
fedoraproject fedora 34
debian debian_linux 10.0
debian debian_linux 11.0
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