SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2021-21166

CVE-2021-21166 on CISA KEV

Data race in audio in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Google Chromium Race Condition Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / Google / Chromium
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
BOD 22-01 due
2021-11-17
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
— — · EPSS 36.26%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Data race in audio in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
GoogleChromeunspecified

06Detection

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