CVE-2021-37986

HIGH 8.8CVE-2021-37986 · Published 02/11/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-37986 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting chrome (google).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.95%, higher than 61.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 95.0.4638.54 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chrome google	`< 95.0.4638.54`	`95.0.4638.54`

Description

Heap buffer overflow in Settings in Google Chrome prior to 95.0.4638.54 allowed a remote attacker to engage with Dev Tools to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html · Vendor Advisory
crbug.com/1242404 · Permissions Required
debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046 · Third Party Advisory

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< 95.0.4638.54

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