CVE-2021-21148

CRITICALNVD 8.89.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 20%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · epss top5pct · public exploitExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Heap buffer overflow in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.150 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
81
EG Risk 81/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
20%
EPSS %ILE
97th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

CISA SSVCTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

February 9, 2021

Last Modified

October 24, 2025

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Jun 2, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. Patch available.
generic
https://crbug.com/1170176
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_4.html
generic

Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162579/Chrome-Array-Transfer-Bypass.html
generic

[SECURITY] [DSA 4858-1] chromium security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4858
generic

Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202104-08) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-08
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: chromium-88.0.4324.150-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AUQSMNV7INLDDSD3RKI5S5EAULX2QC7P/
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: chromium-88.0.4324.150-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7ACWYJ74Z3YN2XH4QMUEGNBC3VXX464L/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2021-21148(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(17 across 17 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.13(1)
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nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
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nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.17(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 14.15.5-r0: fixed in 14.15.5-r0
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Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium73.0.3683.75-1 ... 88.0.4324.96-2 (57 versions)
  • every version up to 88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1: fixed in 88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 88.0.4324.150-1: fixed in 88.0.4324.150-1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 88.0.4324.150-1: fixed in 88.0.4324.150-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 88.0.4324.150-1: fixed in 88.0.4324.150-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium—
  • every version up to 88.0.4324.150-1: fixed in 88.0.4324.150-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 106× in last 7d / 450× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,860 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-06 21:53 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-06 21:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-06 18:14 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-06 18:14 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-06 18:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-06 15:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-10-06 14:35 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-06 14:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-06 10:56 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-06 10:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-06 07:17 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-06 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-06 03:38 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-06 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-06 03:38 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-06 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-05 23:59 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-05 23:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-05 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-05 20:20 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-05 20:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-10-05 17:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-10-05 16:41 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-05 16:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-10-05 13:02 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-05 13:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-05 09:22 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-05 09:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-05 05:44 UTCVendor advisory
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  8. 2026-10-04 22:23 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-04 22:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-04 18:44 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-04 18:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  14. 2026-10-04 11:24 UTCVendor advisory
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  20. 2026-10-04 00:27 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-04 00:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-10-03 20:48 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-03 20:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-10-03 17:10 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-03 17:10 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-03 17:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-10-03 14:22 UTCEPSS rescore
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  29. 2026-10-03 13:30 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-03 13:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-10-03 09:51 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-03 09:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-10-03 06:10 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-03 06:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-10-03 02:31 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-03 02:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-10-02 22:52 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-02 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-10-02 19:13 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-02 19:13 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-02 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-10-02 16:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  43. 2026-10-02 15:33 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-02 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-10-02 11:54 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-02 11:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-10-02 08:13 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-02 08:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-10-02 04:33 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-02 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-10-02 00:55 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-02 00:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-10-01 21:16 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-01 21:16 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-01 21:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-10-01 19:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-10-01 17:37 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-01 17:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-10-01 13:54 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-01 13:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-10-01 10:16 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-01 10:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-10-01 06:37 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-01 06:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-10-01 02:59 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-01 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-09-30 23:18 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-09-30 23:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-09-30 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-09-30 15:59 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-09-30 15:59 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-30 15:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-09-30 15:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  74. 2026-09-30 12:20 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-30 12:20 UTCGHSA enrichment

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2021-21148?
CVE-2021-21148 is a critical vulnerability published on February 9, 2021. Heap buffer overflow in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.150 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
When was CVE-2021-21148 disclosed?
CVE-2021-21148 was first published on February 9, 2021, with the most recent update on October 24, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2021-21148 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2021-21148 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, affecting Google Chromium V8. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-21148?
CVE-2021-21148 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2021-21148?
CVE-2021-21148 affects Google Chromium V8. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2021-21148?
A fix for CVE-2021-21148 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2021-21148 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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