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CVE-2021-4053

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-4053 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the UI component of Google Chrome on Linux, affecting versions prior to 96.0.4664.93, as well as various Debian and Fedora distributions. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), successful exploitation could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and concern within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 96.0.4664.93CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0124 is in the 64th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)Fixed in: 96.0.1054.53
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Dec/CVE-2021-4053

Chromium: CVE-2021-4053 Use after free in UI

Dec 14, 2021

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2021/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Vendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1267791
Permissions Required
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-25
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5046
Third Party Advisory