Reference page — cumulative record through Sunday, October 4, 2026 UTC. Reference pages update as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record.

CVE-2021-38003

CVE-2021-38003HIGH

Google Chromium V8

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   N   R  U  H  H  H    8.8   .3857   98.5   YES

AFFECTED
  Product  Versions       Fixed
  Chrome   unspecified –  —

TIMELINE
  Aug 3   Reserved by Chrome
  Nov 3   Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2021-11-17
  Nov 23  Published (CNA: Chrome)

CWE-755 · CNA: Chrome · CVSS v3.1 · 5 references · KEV due November 17, 2021

Description

Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 95.0.4638.69 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
August 3, 2021	Reserved	Reserved by Chrome
November 3, 2021	KEV ADDED	Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2021-11-17
November 23, 2021	Published	Published (CNA: Chrome)

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
Google	Chrome	—	unspecified	—

Weaknesses

CWE-755

References (5)

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html [x_refsource_MISC]
https://crbug.com/1263462 [x_refsource_MISC]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/ [vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA]
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-38003 [government-resource]
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046 [vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN]

Authoritative record: CVE-2021-38003 at cve.org

Vendors: google

Weaknesses: CWE-755

About this page

This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2021-38003 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Sunday, October 4, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.