CVE-2021-21187

2021-03-0900:00:00

ubuntu.com

google chrome

url validation

domain spoofing

idn homographs

crafted domain name

remote attacker

chrome version 89.0.4389.72

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

CVSS3

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

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

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

54.9%

JSON

Insufficient data validation in URL formatting in Google Chrome prior to
89.0.4389.72 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN
homographs via a crafted domain name.

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