CVE-2021-21172

2021-03-0900:00:00

ubuntu.com

google chrome

file system api

windows

remote attacker

filesystem restrictions

html page

debian

ubuntu 19.10

CVSS2

5.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

CVSS3

8.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

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

EPSS

0.006

Percentile

78.1%

JSON

Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API in Google Chrome on
Windows prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed a remote attacker to bypass
filesystem restrictions via a crafted HTML page.

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