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CVE-2021-21220

94
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21220 is a critical heap corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, affecting versions prior to 89.0.4389.128, as well as Fedora-based Chrome distributions. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), it allows remote attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through a crafted HTML page, requiring user interaction. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit modules available in Metasploit, and has garnered significant community and media attention, as indicated by its high EPSS and FAUCET scores.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 89.0.4389.128CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
69.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 3, 2021
Metasploit: Google Chrome versions before 89.0.4389.128 V8 XOR Typer Out-Of-Bounds Access RCE · Apr 13, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6929 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 14,855 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Apr/CVE-2021-21220

Chromium: CVE-2021-21220 Insufficient validation of untrusted input in V8 for x86_64

Apr 13, 2021

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/162437/Google-Chrome-XOR-Typer-Out-Of-Bounds-Access-Remote-Code-Execution.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com / files/176210/Chrome-V8-JIT-XOR-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2021/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release Notes
crbug.com / 1196683
ExploitIssue Tracking
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EAJ42L4JFPBJATCZ7MOZQTUDGV4OEHHG
Release Notes
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3GZ42MYPGD35V652ZPVPYYS7A7LVXVY
Release Notes
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VUZBGKGVZADNA3I24NVG7HAYYUTOSN5A
Release Notes
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202104-08
Third Party Advisory