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critical 9.6

CVE-2021-21146 in the critical feed json

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…

published 2021-02-09 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-8537

cvss
9.6
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 88.0.4324.146
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 88.0.4324.146-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-21146

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-21146

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • libqt5-qtwebengine Package Hub 15 SP2 5.15.3-bp152.3.3.1
  • libqt5-qtwebengine openSUSE Leap 15.2 5.15.3-lp152.3.3.4
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP2 88.0.4324.146-bp152.2.56.5
  • chromium openSUSE Leap 15.2 88.0.4324.146-lp152.2.69.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1016-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0973-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0268-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0259-1

  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +7 more 5.15.3_git20200401-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-21146

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vivaldi Arch Linux 3.6.2165.36-1
  • chromium Arch Linux 88.0.4324.150-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1478AVG-1525

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-21146 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Use after free in Navigation

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.