CVE-2021-38000
Published 2021-11-23 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com
Summary
CVE-2021-38000 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability in Google Chromium Intents. 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
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents in Google Chrome on Android prior to 95.0.4638.69 allowed a remote attacker to arbitrarily browser to a malicious URL via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Google — Chromium Intents
Name: Google Chromium Intents Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2021-11-17
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html
- https://crbug.com/1249962
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html
- https://crbug.com/1249962
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046

