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CVE-2021-30516

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-30516 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Google Chrome's History component (prior to version 90.0.4430.212) and related Fedora products. This flaw allows a remote attacker, after compromising the renderer process, to exploit heap corruption via a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 8.8, the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and could lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 90.0.4430.212CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 67th 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 Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-May/CVE-2021-30516

Chromium: CVE-2021-30516 Heap buffer overflow in History

May 11, 2021

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2021/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1201446
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ETMZL6IHCTCTREEL434BQ4THQ7EOHJ43
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PAT6EOXVQFE6JFMFQF4IKAOUQSHMHL54
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202107-06
Third Party Advisory