Detections
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CVE-2021-21148
high
Description
Heap buffer overflow in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.150 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
From the Tenable Blog
CVE-2021-21148: Google Chrome Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Published: 2021-02-05
Following reports of in-the-wild exploitation, Google released a patch for the third browser-based zero-day vulnerability of 2021. Background On February 4, Google published a stable channel update for Chrome for Desktop. This release contained a single security fix to address a critical zero-day vulnerability that had been exploited in the wild.