CVE-2021-38016: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insufficient policy enforcement in background fetch in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to bypass same origin policy via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 34 only
• Google Chrome: before 96.0.4664.45 (fixed in 96.0.4664.45)

Published 2021-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.