CVE-2021-21193
8.8, high Known exploitedGoogle Chromium Blink Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 10% higher than 95.5% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 16 Mar 20215 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 3 Nov 2021. US federal agencies had to remediate by 17 Nov 2021, a deadline that has passed.
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Description
Use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.90 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Details
- Vendor
- Product
- Chrome
- Weakness
- CWE-416 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 6
Advisories 2
Other references 4
- chromereleases.googleblog.com /2021/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html (opens in a new tab)
- crbug.com /1186287 (opens in a new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N52OWF4BAP3JNK2QYGU3Q6QUVDZDCIMQ/ (opens in a new tab)
- cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-21193 (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other Google CVEs
Every Google CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
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- CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability KEV EPSS 49% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-11645 Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-5281 Google Dawn Use-After-Free Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.7% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-3909 Google Skia Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-3910 Google Chromium V8 Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-2441 Google Chromium CSS Use-After-Free Vulnerability KEV EPSS 55% 8.8, high
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.