High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 9, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-21117

Description

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.

Affected products

Google/Chromellm-fuzzy2 versions
<88.0.4324.96+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <88.0.4324.96
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
osv-coords5 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1 pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2 pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP1 pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP2
< 88.0.4324.96-lp151.2.171.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 88.0.4324.96-lp151.2.171.1
- (no CPE)range: < 88.0.4324.96-lp152.2.66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 88.0.4324.96-bp151.3.156.1
- (no CPE)range: < 88.0.4324.96-bp152.2.53.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.htmlnvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
crbug.com/1137179nvdPermissions RequiredThird Party Advisory

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