CVE-2021-38020 - Insufficient policy enforcement in contacts picker in Google Chrome on Android prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page

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MEDIUM

Insufficient policy enforcement in contacts picker in Google Chrome on Android prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page

Published Dec 23, 2021

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.67%

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in contacts picker in Google Chrome on Android prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Vendor Google Product Chrome Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <96.0.4664.45

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Google

Chrome

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<96.0.4664.45

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://crbug.com/1259694
x_refsource_MISCPermissions Required
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://crbug.com/1259694		x_refsource_MISCPermissions Required
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner Chrome

Published Dec 23, 2021

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Aug 3, 2021

Link CVE-2021-38020

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2021-38020

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2021-38020