Patching Severe Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome (CVE-2021-30563- Zero-Day) using SanerNow

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    Overview:
    A Zero-Day vulnerability, among other high severity vulnerabilities, was patched in Google's Chrome Browser. The zero-day flaw is reported as being exploited in the wild. On successful exploitation, an attacker could execute code on the affected system.

    CVEs assigned
    CVE-2021-30559
    CVE-2021-30541
    CVE-2021-30560
    CVE-2021-30561
    CVE-2021-30562
    CVE-2021-30563
    CVE-2021-30564

    Affected software:
    Google Chrome before 91.0.4472.164 on Windows, Linux and Mac.

    Solution:

    To address this vulnerability, the vendor has released security patches. For more information, please refer to our blog

    Use SanerNow platform to apply this high severity patch quickly across the organization as shown below.

    SanerNow: Vulnerability detection and patching of Google Chrome:

    1. Login to SanerNow platform

    2. Switch to the account/site specific view and Go to 'VM tool'

    3. If your Google Chrome application is vulnerable, Saner lists the CVE’s CVE-2021-30563 in 'Top Vulnerabilities' or 'Recently Discovered Vulnerabilities' as shown in the below diagram

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    4. Search for this vulnerability in VM tool. If you are affected, apply the patch through PM -> Missing Patches

    5. Select 'Groups/Devices' in the 'Asset Source' section and click 'Apply'.

    6. Select the 'Google Chrome' product from the 'Asset' section as shown in the below diagram.

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    7. Select 'Apply Selected Patches' at the rightmost corner. This will prompt for 'Creating Patching Task'. Fill in 'Task Name' and 'Remediation Schedule' as per your preference and click on 'Apply Selected Patches' as shown below

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    8. Remediation job will be created, which will fix the vulnerabilities by upgrading the software and making the system immune to Google Chrome vulnerabilities.
    9. Once remediation is done, the Saner agent automatically scans again and upload the result to SanerNow as shown below

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