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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2021-4055 json

Heap buffer overflow in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.93 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious e…

published 2021-12-23 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-33950

cvss
8.8
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 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap buffer overflow in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.93 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 96.0.4664.93
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 97.0.4692.71-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4055

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 97.0.4692.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-4055

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 96.0.4664.110-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.4 NonFree 85.0.4341.28-lp154.2.5.1
  • opera openSUSE Leap 15.3 NonFree 83.0.4254.27-lp153.2.33.1
  • chromium openSUSE Leap 15.2 96.0.4664.110-lp152.2.143.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 96.0.4664.93-bp153.2.45.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11687-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2022:0110-1openSUSE-SU-2022:0047-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1632-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1582-1

  • chromium Arch Linux 96.0.4664.93-1
  • vivaldi Arch Linux 5.0.2497.28-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2600AVG-2601

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-2021-4055 updated cvss 8.8

chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in extensions

  • 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

1.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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.