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CVE-2021-4064

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-4064 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome's screen capture functionality on ChromeOS, affecting versions prior to 96.0.4664.93. This flaw, also present in various Debian and Fedora Chrome distributions, allows a remote attacker to potentially corrupt heap memory and achieve high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. While the vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.8, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog. Despite this, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

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
1.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0128 is in the 66th 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-2021-4064

Chromium: CVE-2021-4064 Use after free in screen capture

Dec 14, 2021

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2021/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Vendor Advisory
crbug.com / 1273197
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