High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 23, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-38016
CVE-2021-38016
Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in background fetch in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to bypass same origin policy via a crafted HTML page.
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Affected products
8- osv-coords6 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/opera&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3%20NonFreepkg:rpm/opensuse/opera&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4%20NonFreepkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP3
< 96.0.4664.110-lp152.2.143.1+ 5 more
- (no CPE)range: < 96.0.4664.110-lp152.2.143.1
- (no CPE)range: < 96.0.4664.93-bp153.2.45.2
- (no CPE)range: < 96.0.4664.110-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 83.0.4254.27-lp153.2.33.1
- (no CPE)range: < 85.0.4341.28-lp154.2.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 96.0.4664.93-bp153.2.45.2
Patches
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References
4- chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046nvdThird Party Advisory
- crbug.com/1244289nvdPermissions Required
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/nvd
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