Privilege Escalation Affecting chromium package, versions [,88.0.4324.96)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409523
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Feb 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-21117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 88.0.4324.96 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Insufficient policy enforcement in Cryptohome in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.96 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a crafted file.

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