CVE-2021-37973
Published 2021-10-08 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2021-37973 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.6) vulnerability in Google Chromium Portals. 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 76 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 76 known-exploited Google vulnerabilities →Description
Use after free in Portals in Google Chrome prior to 94.0.4606.61 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Google — Chromium Portals
Name: Google Chromium Portals Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2021-11-17
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html
- https://crbug.com/1251727
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PM7MOYYHJSWLIFZ4TPJTD7MSA3HSSLV2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html
- https://crbug.com/1251727
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R/