Spoofing attack in Google Chromium - CVE-2021-4054

 

Spoofing attack in Google Chromium - CVE-2021-4054

Published: December 6, 2021 / Updated: December 10, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU58536
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4054
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in autofill in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and spoof web page content.


Affected software

Google Chromium
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Fedora
chromium
chromium (Debian package)
www-client/google-chrome
dev-qt/qtwebengine
www-client/chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2021-4054

Update to version 96.0.4664.93.

Google Chromium - update to 96.0.4664.93
Google Chrome - update to 96.0.4664.93
Microsoft Edge - update to 96.0.1054.53
chromium - addressed in versions 96.0.4664.110-2.el8, 96.0.4664.110-2.fc34, 96.0.4664.110-2.fc35, 96.0.4664.110-3.fc34, 96.0.4664.110-3.fc35
chromium (Debian package) - update to 97.0.4692.71-0.1~deb11u1
www-client/google-chrome - update to 101.0.1210.47
dev-qt/qtwebengine - update to 103.0.5060.53
www-client/chromium - update to 103.0.5060.53

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