How severe is CVE-2021-38003?

CVE-2021-38003 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 38.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2021-38003: Google Chromium V8 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google Chromium V8 Memory Corruption Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-11-03

Remediation due

2021-11-17

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38003

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 15, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2021-38003 to the KEV catalog 20 days before its CVE record was published.
It is one of 75 Google entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 23 added in 2021.
Its current EPSS score (38.6%) is higher than that of 45% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Google	Google Chrome	unspecified to <95.0.4638.69

References

4 Links

Vendor advisories

Other references

Record Details

Published

2021-11-23

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

Chrome

Credited to

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