CVE-2021-30551
Published 2021-06-15 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2021-30551 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Google Chromium V8. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by November 17, 2021. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Google has 75 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 75 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →Description
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 91.0.4472.101 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Google — Chromium V8
Name: Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability
Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2021-11-17
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/1216437
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ETMZL6IHCTCTREEL434BQ4THQ7EOHJ43/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PAT6EOXVQFE6JFMFQF4IKAOUQSHMHL54/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-06
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/1216437

