CVE-2021-38016

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-863

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google	Chrome	>= unspecified, < 96.0.4664.45

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlVendor Advisory
https://crbug.com/1244289Permissions Required
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046Third Party Advisory
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlVendor Advisory
https://crbug.com/1244289Permissions Required
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 23, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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