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 incorrect authorization in PermissionElement
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ImpactBypass system access restrictions
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation 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 use a vulnerable Google Chrome desktop version prior to 155.0.8059.39 AND to actively visit or load an attacker-crafted HTML page (UI:R) that abuses the PermissionElement component's incorrect authorization check. There is no authentication requirement on the attacker side (PR:N), but the mandatory user interaction, the dependence on reaching the specific PermissionElement permission-handling code path, and the limited Low-severity technical impact (no availability impact, only partial confidentiality/integrity) materially constrain real-world exploitability to opportunistic drive-by scenarios rather than scalable automated attacks. |
| Impact | Multiple signals converge on this being a genuinely low-priority issue despite a medium CVSS of 5.4. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) shows network reach and no privileges required, but is gated by required user interaction and limited to Low confidentiality and integrity impact with no availability impact - consistent with Google's own 'Chromium security severity: Low' rating. EPSS reinforces this at just 0.18% (7th percentile), and CISA's SSVC decision framework independently agrees: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The signals are therefore mutually consistent rather than conflicting - a real but low-urgency browser flaw. The one nuance worth noting: although AV:N marks this 'network', the practical delivery is web-page-based requiring a victim to visit attacker content, so this is opportunistic/drive-by in nature, not a server-side remotely-reachable service bug. No key data is contradictory, though the specific 'system access restrictions' being bypassed are not fully detailed in the description. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a malicious web page that abuses the incorrect authorization in Chrome's PermissionElement to bypass permission-related access restrictions. A victim running a vulnerable Chrome version (prior to 155.0.8059.39) is lured into visiting the page, and the crafted content triggers the flaw to improperly gain access the user did not intend to grant. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and user interaction (visiting the page) is required. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 07, 2026
Incorrect authorization in Google Chrome's PermissionElement component, affecting desktop builds prior to 155.0.8059.39, allows a remote attacker to bypass system access restrictions by enticing a user to load a crafted HTML page. The attacker needs no credentials and no prior access (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N), but successful exploitation depends on the victim actively visiting or rendering the malicious page (UI:R) and on reaching the specific permission-handling code path, so impact is confined to partial confidentiality and integrity loss with no availability impact. Risk is low in practice: EPSS is 0.18% (7th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, CISA's SSVC rates exploitation as none and automatable as no, and Chromium itself rates the issue Low severity despite the 5.4 base score; vendor-released patches are available in version 155.0.8059.39.
RemediationAI
Primary fix: upgrade Google Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later; the patch is vendor-released and available now, so rely on the built-in updater (chrome://settings/help) or an enterprise software-deployment mechanism, then confirm the running version at chrome://version and fully restart the browser, since the update only takes effect for processes started afterwards. The official release note describing the fix is at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html, with technical detail in the Chromium tracker at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/540076586; because this shipped as a Chromium security fix, also update any Chromium-derived browsers in your fleet to their equivalent patched milestones. If immediate fleet-wide upgrade is not possible, compensating controls are limited and carry trade-offs: enforce automatic updates and block or delay launch of unpatched Chrome builds via your endpoint-management or application-control tooling (breaks users who legitimately depend on pinned browser versions, and version pinning is often needed for internal web apps); restrict high-value users to a hardened, allowlisted browsing profile or a remote-rendering/VDI browser where only trusted sites are reachable (reduces drive-by exposure but degrades general web usability); and, where your Chrome enterprise policy set permits it, disable or restrict the standardized permission-request UI and related permission prompts so the PermissionElement code path is not reachable (effective at cutting the attack surface but causes legitimate sites to fall back to less friendly permission prompts, and policy names must be verified against your Chrome version's policy template before deployment). Given EPSS of 0.18%, no KEV listing and no public exploit identified, mitigation can proceed on a normal patch-cycle cadence rather than emergency response, but the update should still be applied promptly because the attack requires nothing more than a crafted page and a single user visit.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is an authorization-check defect (CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization) in Chromium's PermissionElement, the browser-side component that backs standardized, embeddable permission-request UI (the proposed HTML <permission> element used so sites can offer a browser-controlled prompt for permissions such as camera, microphone, or geolocation instead of rolling their own). Because the component is meant to be the trusted gatekeeper for permission state, any weakness in how it validates the requesting context means a crafted page can cause the element to be treated as authorized when it should not be, letting the page reach capabilities that the browser's access restrictions should have denied. The CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N vector shows this is remotely reachable with low attack complexity and no attacker authentication, but it is user-interaction dependent and its scope is unchanged, with only low confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact - consistent with CISA SSVC's 'partial' technical impact and 'none' for exploitation and automatable. The affected product scope is the Google Chrome stable channel (CPE pattern cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*), with the fix landing in the 155.0.8059.39 release; EUVD tracks the same single vulnerable range, Chrome < 155.0.8059.39.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Delivered via a crafted web page so AV:N/PR:N but UI:R for the victim visit; impact limited to a permission bypass, giving C:L/I:L/A:N and S:U.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
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4DescriptionCVE.org
Incorrect authorization in PermissionElement in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to bypass system access restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
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Attack Technique
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