Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting chromium package, versions [,96.0.4664.45)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.86% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-15353485
  • published26 Feb 2026
  • disclosed24 Feb 2026
  • creditMichal Kepkowski

Introduced: 24 Feb 2026

CVE-2021-38022  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 96.0.4664.45 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the allow_credentials / exclude_credentials handling. An attacker can stall or block credential selection by submitting oversized or duplicate credential descriptor lists so the browser fires many silent CTAP getAssertion / makeCredential requests.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1