Type Confusion in Google Chromium - CVE-2021-30563
Published: July 15, 2021
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the V8 component in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger a type confusion error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
Affected software
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Fedora
qt5-qtwebengine
chromium
How to mitigate CVE-2021-30563
Google Chrome - update to 91.0.4472.164
Microsoft Edge - update to 91.0.864.71
qt5-qtwebengine - update to 5.15.8-2.fc34
chromium - addressed in versions 91.0.4472.164-1.el8, 91.0.4472.164-1.fc33, 91.0.4472.164-1.fc34
External References
Related Security Bulletins
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
- Arch Linux update for chromium
- Arch Linux update for vivaldi
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge
- Arch Linux update for opera
- Gentoo update for Chromium, Google Chrome
- Fedora 34 update for chromium
- Fedora 33 update for chromium
- Fedora EPEL 8 update for chromium
- Fedora 34 update for qt5-qtwebengine