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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.