Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to malicious page
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DeliveryServe crafted HTML payload
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ExploitTrigger confused deputy in DeviceBoundSessionCredentials
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ExecutionBypass web origin policy
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ImpactMisuse cross-origin session credential handling
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service Proxy/intermediary controls
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to use an unpatched Chrome build prior to 155.0.8059.39 and to actively visit an attacker-controlled web page containing crafted HTML (UI:R), which is the sole triggering vector against default configurations - no special Chrome setting or non-default feature is named in the description. No authentication or prior privilege is required of the attacker (PR:N), and no victim credentials are needed to serve the page. Limiting factors that reduce realistic risk: mandatory user interaction (the victim must navigate to the page), impact confined to an integrity-only web-origin-policy bypass within the DeviceBoundSessionCredentials component (C:N/A:N, scope unchanged), and the narrow nature of the confused-deputy condition rather than arbitrary code execution. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue, and the signals are consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) yields 4.3 and reflects a network-reachable but user-interaction-dependent flaw with only limited integrity impact and no confidentiality or availability impact - Google's own Chromium rating of 'Low' agrees. EPSS reinforces this: 0.24% probability at the 13th percentile indicates very low near-term exploitation likelihood. The vulnerability is NOT in CISA KEV and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization. The one factor that elevates real-world exposure is prevalence - Chrome is ubiquitous - but the combination of required user interaction, unchanged scope, and integrity-only impact (a web-origin/same-origin policy bypass rather than code execution or data theft) keeps the practical risk modest. This is a legitimately low-severity, high-CVSS-it-is-not case: patch on your normal Chrome update cadence rather than as an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a malicious web page and lures a Chrome user to visit it; the crafted HTML triggers a confused-deputy condition in the DeviceBoundSessionCredentials component that causes Chrome to act across web origins it should keep separated, bypassing origin policy to tamper with or misuse session-bound credential handling. No public exploit code is identified, and the attack requires the victim to actively load the attacker's page (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 09, 2026
An origin-policy bypass in Chrome's DeviceBoundSessionCredentials component allows remote attackers to make the browser act as a confused deputy for an untrusted site via a crafted HTML page, affecting Chrome builds prior to 155.0.8059.39 (Chromium security severity: Low, CVSS 4.3). Exploitation is network-reachable and requires no attacker authentication (PR:N), but it depends entirely on the victim navigating to an attacker-controlled page (UI:R) and is limited to an integrity impact on web origin rules (C:N/I:L/A:N). No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, the issue is not in CISA KEV, and EPSS is low at 0.24% (13th percentile), which is consistent with the low-priority assessment of this defect.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: 155.0.8059.39 - upgrade Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later, which resolves the DeviceBoundSessionCredentials confused-deputy issue as documented in the stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html (mirrored on the Chromium issue at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/500532594). In practice this means enabling the browser's auto-update and confirming the reported version reaches 155.0.8059.39, or force-applying the update through enterprise management (Chrome Browser Cloud Management, Google Update policies, or your software distribution tooling) - note that force-restart policies will terminate open sessions and may interrupt users, so schedule accordingly. Because the only trigger is a victim visiting an attacker-controlled page, interim risk reduction is limited to blocking known-malicious or untrusted origins through URL filtering, DNS/proxy denylists, or a hardened extension policy, though such controls are inherently incomplete against newly registered or compromised sites and only raise the interaction cost rather than removing the defect. If an organization does not depend on DBSC, evaluate whether the relevant enterprise policy or feature configuration can be disabled or left unenrolled until the fleet is patched; the trade-off is loss of the device-bound session protection that DBSC provides, and any such setting should be reverted once 155.0.8059.39 is deployed. Given the integrity-only, interaction-dependent nature of the issue and the absence of KEV listing or known exploit code, urgent emergency change procedures are not warranted, but the update should be folded into the next routine Chrome maintenance window for all affected endpoints and Chromium-derived browsers.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a confused-deputy condition (CWE-441) inside DeviceBound Session Credentials (DBSC), the Chrome mechanism that cryptographically binds a login session to a specific device using a hardware-backed key so that stolen session cookies are useless on another machine. In a confused deputy, a privileged component that holds authority (here, the browser's DBSC machinery acting for a legitimate origin) is induced by a less-privileged caller (a crafted page) to exercise that authority on the caller's behalf, so the boundary that should confine actions to their true origin is crossed. The assessed CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N confirms the trigger is a remote HTML page requiring victim interaction, with the outcome restricted to a low-severity integrity failure of web origin policy inside the browser process rather than code execution, sandbox escape, or credential disclosure. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* is unversioned in the feed, so the definitive affected boundary comes from the vendor advisory and EUVD entry, which both scope the issue to builds earlier than 155.0.8059.39.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Remote crafted page needs no privileges (PR:N) but requires the victim to visit it (UI:R); the flaw is an origin-policy bypass giving limited integrity impact only (I:L, C:N/A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Confused deputy in DeviceBoundSessionCredentials in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to bypass web origin policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
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