Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to crafted HTML page
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ExploitTrigger WebUI origin-policy bypass
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ExecutionInject script into privileged chrome:// page
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ImpactExecute in privileged WebUI context
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OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to load attacker-controlled crafted HTML in Chrome versions prior to 154.0.8037.92 (UI:R). The attacker must craft content that abuses the WebUI flaw to bypass the web origin policy and reach a privileged internal page (chrome:// WebUI). Limiting factors: no authentication is needed (PR:N) but user interaction is mandatory, the target must be running an unpatched Chrome build, and the payload must specifically target the vulnerable WebUI surface rather than ordinary web content; there is no confirmed availability impact. |
| Impact | The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 6.1) describes a remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity XSS that requires user interaction (visiting a crafted HTML page) and involves a scope change (S:C) - the attacker breaks out of normal web content into a privileged Chrome WebUI (chrome://) page, which is the defining risk of this bug class. Confidentiality and integrity impacts are rated Low and availability None, so the raw score is moderate rather than critical. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public POC is present in the provided data, so by the precision rules this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' Google/Chromium rated the Chromium security severity as High, which reflects the privilege-boundary bypass potential more than the CVSS numeric would suggest; WebUI XSS can be a stepping stone toward more powerful chrome:// bindings. On balance this is a real but interaction-gated browser patch-cycle issue: prioritize routine Chrome updating rather than emergency response, absent evidence of active exploitation. No conflicting signals were found between the vector and the description - both indicate remote delivery with required user interaction. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts or injects a crafted HTML page and lures a victim into visiting it; the page exploits the WebUI flaw to bypass the web origin policy and inject script that executes in the context of a privileged Chrome page. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and successful attack requires the victim to load the malicious content (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
Cross-site scripting in Chrome's WebUI layer allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to escape the normal web origin boundary and inject script into a privileged chrome:// internal page when a victim loads a crafted HTML page in Chrome versions prior to 154.0.8037.92. Because the vulnerable surface is Chrome's own WebUI (CWE-79) rather than ordinary web content, successful exploitation crosses a trust boundary (CVSS scope change S:C), giving the attacker low-level read and write influence over the privileged page; the vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 6.1) confirms no authentication is required but user interaction is mandatory, and no availability impact is assessed. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing; Google has released a fixed build, 154.0.8037.92, so risk is concentrated in unpatched installations. This issue is tracked as EUVD-2026-89395 and documented in the September 2026 Chrome stable channel release notes.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Google Chrome to 154.0.8037.92 or later. Desktop users can force the update from chrome://settings/help and must fully restart the browser for it to take effect; Linux and managed deployments should update through their normal package channel or enterprise update policy (for example Chrome Browser Cloud Management or Group Policy auto-update settings), verifying the reported version reaches 154.0.8037.92 on every endpoint before considering the exposure closed. Because the flaw is an origin escape inside Chrome's own WebUI rather than a configurable feature, there is no meaningful server-side workaround - disabling JavaScript, extensions, or specific chrome:// pages is not a viable compensating control and would break normal browser function. Until endpoints are updated, the practical mitigations are procedural: funnel untrusted browsing, HTML attachments, and untrusted local HTML files through a separate, fully patched or isolated browser instance, block or detach suspicious HTML attachments at the mail gateway to reduce drive-by exposure, and enforce Chrome auto-update so unpatched builds do not persist. Organizations should monitor Chromium issue 563297615 and the Chrome stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_01807488085.html for any follow-up field reports or revisions; note that no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code were identified at time of analysis, so prioritization should be driven by the raw number of unpatched endpoints rather than by active-exploitation urgency. Downstream Chromium-based browsers should be patched once their vendors confirm a rebase that includes this fix.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
WebUI is the framework Chrome uses to render its built-in privileged pages - settings, history, downloads, flags, and similar chrome:// surfaces - which are served from internal resources and treated as trusted origins with access to privileged browser bindings and APIs that ordinary web pages cannot reach. CVE-2026-102329 is a CWE-79 cross-site scripting bug in that WebUI layer: insufficient handling of attacker-influenced content allowed a crafted HTML page to break out of the normal web origin policy and execute in the context of a privileged chrome:// page. The CVSS scope change (S:C) is the key technical indicator - the impact is not confined to the origin of the injected content but extends into Chrome's internal privileged domain, which is precisely why a High Chromium security severity was assigned despite only low confidentiality and integrity impacts (C:L/I:L) and no availability impact. The attack is remote and low-complexity (AV:N/AC:L) and, per the CVSS vector (PR:N), requires no authentication, but it does require the victim to load the attacker's crafted HTML (UI:R), so it is a drive-by-style user-interaction bug rather than an unauthenticated server-side compromise. Chrome's multi-process architecture and site isolation limit but do not eliminate the value of WebUI origin escapes, since the privileged page itself exposes browser-internal state. The affected component is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* and the flaw was reported through Google's own Chrome reporting channel.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Remote crafted page needs victim interaction (UI:R), no auth (PR:N); origin-to-privileged-page bypass is a scope change (S:C) with limited confidentiality/integrity impact and no availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Cross-site scripting in WebUI in Google Chrome prior to 154.0.8037.92 allowed a remote attacker to bypass web origin policy into a privileged page via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
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Attack Technique
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