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CVE-2021-21183

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21183 is an inappropriate implementation vulnerability in Google Chrome's performance APIs, affecting versions prior to 89.0.4389.72, as well as various Debian and Fedora distributions. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 4.3) allows a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data through a crafted HTML page, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. While not listed on the KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code, it garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, including reports of it being an actively exploited zero-day at the time of discovery.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 89.0.4389.72CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0104 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Mar/CVE-2021-21183

Chromium CVE-2021-21183: Inappropriate implementation in performance APIs

Mar 9, 2021

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2021/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1105875
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchPermissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BBT54RKAE5XLMWSHLVUKJ7T2XHHYMXLH
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FE5SIKEVYTMDCC5OSXGOM2KRPYLHYMQX
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LCIDZ77XUDMB2EBPPWCQXPEIJERDNSNT
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202104-08
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-4886
Third Party Advisory