Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
CVE-2021-30517
Summary
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 90.0.4430.212 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published