CVE-2021-37959

HIGH

Google Chrome < 94.0.4606.54 - Use-After-Free in Task Manager

Title source: llm

Description

Use after free in Task Manager in Google Chrome prior to 94.0.4606.54 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to enage in a series of user gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html

Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://crbug.com/1229625

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PM7MOYYHJSWLIFZ4TPJTD7MSA3HSSLV2/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0011

EPSS Percentile 29.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-416

Status published

Products (5)

debian/debian_linux 10.0

debian/debian_linux 11.0

fedoraproject/fedora 33

fedoraproject/fedora 35

google/chrome < 94.0.4606.54

Published Oct 08, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026