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medium 4.3

CVE-2021-21186 json

Insufficient policy enforcement in QR scanning in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed an attacker who convinced the user to…

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-8577

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient policy enforcement in QR scanning in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed an attacker who convinced the user to scan a QR code to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted QR code.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 89.0.4389.72
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 89.0.4389.82-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-21186

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-21186

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15 SP2 89.0.4389.72-bp152.2.62.1
  • chromium openSUSE Leap 15.2 89.0.4389.72-lp152.2.77.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0401-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0392-1

  • chromium Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +8 more 89.0.4389.72-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-21186

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium Arch Linux 89.0.4389.72-1
  • vivaldi Arch Linux 3.7.2218.45-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1631AVG-1633

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2021-21186 updated cvss 4.3

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in QR scanning

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

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References

Sources

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