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CVE-2021-21189

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21189 describes an insufficient policy enforcement vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 89.0.4389.72, allowing a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions through a crafted HTML page. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 4.3) requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to low integrity impact (I:L), affecting various distributions including Debian, Fedora, and Google Chrome itself. While not actively exploited (KEV: No) and lacking public exploit code, it garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating notable attention despite its low FAUCET Risk Score.

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:N/I:L/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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-2021-21189

Chromium CVE-2021-21189: Insufficient policy enforcement in payments

Mar 9, 2021

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2021/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1165392
Permissions Required
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