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CVE-2021-21198 (GCVE-0-2021-21198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-09 21:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:01
VLAI
Summary
Out of bounds read in IPC in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.114 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Out of bounds read
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 89.0.4389.114 (custom)
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