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Rewterz Threat Advisory – New Chrome 0-day Bug Under Active Attacks

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Google chrome has released another patch for the actively exploited bug and says it is being abused in the wild. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-21166 which is Object lifecycle issue in audio. Google was quick to release an emergency fix to the actively exploited bug in their latest stable updates for desktop.  

CVE-2021-21166: Object lifecycle issue in audio.

Impact

Browser vulnerability

Affected Vendors

Google

Affected Products

Google Chrome

Remediation

Update your browser to the latest available patch. Chrome 89.0.4389.72

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