CVE-2021-21111

2021-01-0800:00:00

ubuntu.com

insufficient policy enforcement

chrome webui

sandbox escape

malicious extension

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.6

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

56.2%

JSON

Insufficient policy enforcement in WebUI in Google Chrome prior to
87.0.4280.141 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a
malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted
Chrome Extension.

Bugs

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979533>

Notes

Author	Note
alexmurray	The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchchromium-browser< 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.18.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchchromium-browser< 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.16.04.1UNKNOWN