CVE-2021-30577 Privilege escalation in Chrome

What is CVE-2021-30577?

CVE-2021-30577 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 3 Aug 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Insufficient policy enforcement in Installer in Google Chrome prior to 92.0.4515.107 allowed a remote attacker to perform local privilege escalation via a crafted file.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-30577?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2021-30577?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2021-30577 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-30577 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-LU48204, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-30577, GHSA-75h3-vgqp-vv5x, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-30577.