CVE-2021-21779: Webkit

Use after free in Webkit

CVSS 6.8 MediumEPSS 0.029 · 87th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: talos) at 8 Jul 2021, 11:21 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Webkit	affected Webkit WebKitGTK 2.30.4

Identifiers

CVE-2021-21779

CNA

talos

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-416

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.8	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L	CNA (talos)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.029, the 87th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 8 Jul 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1238
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/23/1 mailing-listmlist
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V4QORERLPDN3UNNJFJSOMHZZCU2G75Q6/ vendor-advisoryfedora
www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4945 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KYMMBQN4PRVDLMIJT2LY2BWHLYBD57P3/ vendor-advisoryfedora

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.