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CVE-2021-21144

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21144 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Google Chrome's Tab Groups feature, affecting versions prior to 88.0.4324.146, as well as Fedora Project's Chrome and Fedora. An attacker could exploit this by convincing a user to install a malicious Chrome Extension, leading to heap corruption. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but no prior privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 88.0.4324.146CPE matchmatch criteria
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0087 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 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 Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Feb/CVE-2021-21144

Chromium CVE-2021-21144: Heap buffer overflow in Tab Groups

Feb 9, 2021

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2021/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1163845
Permissions Required
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7ACWYJ74Z3YN2XH4QMUEGNBC3VXX464L
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AUQSMNV7INLDDSD3RKI5S5EAULX2QC7P
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202104-08
Third Party Advisory