CVE-2021-38012
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
02 Description
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.45 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
- 0.94% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 60.8% 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
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2021-12-23 00:05Z4 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-843Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2488f316c62785d8dab4536d297703accce68ccf2d614d846e643cab4a6298ca
05 Affected products
06 References
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/1262791
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-6a292e2cf4https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
- www.debian.orgDSA-5046https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 96.0.4664.45-1
- vivaldi Fixed in 5.0.2497.24-1
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 97.0.4692.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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.