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CVE-2021-38017
Insufficient policy enforcement in iframe sandbox in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.83%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 42% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in iframe sandbox in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.83% · top 42% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
References
4
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/1256822 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-6a292e2cf4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-5046 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-24490 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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