CVE-2021-38020

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in contacts picker in Google Chrome on Android prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 34
Google Chrome: before 96.0.4664.45 — fixed in 96.0.4664.45

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 96.0.4664.45. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1259694
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/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1259694
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046

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