VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2021-38000
Google Chromium Intents Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
KEVMEDIUM 6.1EPSS 4.65%
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Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 17 November 2021). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 4.65% probability · 91th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Listed 3 November 2021 · due 17 November 2021
- Weakness
- CWE-601, CWE-20
- Affected
- google/chrome · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38000
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.htmlRelease Notes
- https://crbug.com/1249962Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/Release Notes
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.htmlRelease Notes
- https://crbug.com/1249962Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/Release Notes
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-38000US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.