CVE-2021-37972
Out of bounds read in libjpeg-turbo in Google Chrome prior to 94.0.4606.54 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
02 Description
Out of bounds read in libjpeg-turbo in Google Chrome prior to 94.0.4606.54 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.78% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-10-08 21:30Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 01:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-08-03
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 88c8371d534129b83dfd129c1fa8289b70e05af307d493295136d4c26ed60a34
05 Affected products
06 References
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/1234259
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-ab09a05562https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-359a715688https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7G7UQ57NOKHQBYIHNJAFKFVWOQ6ZNU6/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-591b3a2af0https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PM7MOYYHJSWLIFZ4TPJTD7MSA3HSSLV2/
- www.debian.orgDSA-5046https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 94.0.4606.54-1
- vivaldi Fixed in 4.3.2439.39-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- chromium Fixed in 97.0.4692.71-0.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- chromium Fixed in 97.0.4692.71-0.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- chromium Fixed in 97.0.4692.71-0.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 94.0.4606.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.