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Google Chrome CVE-2026-17662

| EUVDEUVD-2026-50788 MEDIUM
Origin Validation Error (CWE-346)
2026-07-30 Chrome GHSA-wm9r-82qw-cfp5
Medium
Disputed · 4.3 Vendor: Chrome
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Sources disagree (Medium–Critical)
Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI
4.3 MEDIUM

Network-delivered via crafted page requiring active user visit (UI:R); impact is cross-origin data leakage only (C:L), no integrity or availability effect, no scope change.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
CRITICAL
qualitative
Red Hat
6.5 HIGH
qualitative

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CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 30, 2026 - 23:38 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 30, 2026 - 21:37 NVD
4.3 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Jul 30, 2026 - 02:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:18 cve.org
MEDIUM 4.3
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:18 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

Insufficient policy enforcement in Prefetch in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

AnalysisAI

Cross-origin data leakage in Google Chrome's Prefetch subsystem prior to version 151.0.7922.72 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read data belonging to other origins by inducing a victim to visit a crafted HTML page. The flaw arises from insufficient policy enforcement (CWE-346) within the prefetch mechanism, which fails to properly honour cross-origin isolation boundaries and permits attacker-controlled pages to infer or extract content from resources on distinct origins. …

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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata

Access
Attacker crafts malicious HTML page with cross-origin prefetch directives
Delivery
Victim lured to page via phishing or malvertising (user interaction)
Exploit
Chrome prefetch initiates requests to target cross-origin resources
Execution
Policy enforcement boundary bypassed in prefetch subsystem
Persist
Cross-origin response content inferred or read by attacker page
Impact
Sensitive cross-origin data exfiltrated to attacker infrastructure

Vulnerability AssessmentAI

Exploitation Exploitation requires two concrete conditions: first, the victim must be running Google Chrome in any version prior to 151.0.7922.72 on a desktop platform; second, the victim must actively visit an attacker-controlled HTML page that specifically instructs Chrome to prefetch cross-origin resources - delivery vectors include phishing links, malicious advertisements, or compromised third-party websites. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment The CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium) accurately reflects the bounded nature of this vulnerability: network-reachable (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no privileges required (PR:N) but mandating active user interaction (UI:R), with impact limited exclusively to partial confidentiality loss (C:L) and no integrity or availability dimension. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
Exploit Scenario An attacker registers a domain and hosts a crafted HTML page that uses Chrome's prefetch API to initiate speculative requests targeting cross-origin resources - for example, a banking portal or webmail page the victim is authenticated to. The victim is directed to the malicious page via a phishing email or malicious advertisement, and Chrome's insufficient policy enforcement allows the attacker's page to read or infer the prefetched cross-origin content, leaking session-specific data back to the attacker's server. …
Remediation The primary and definitive fix is to update Google Chrome to version 151.0.7922.72 or later via Chrome's built-in silent updater or by deploying the updated installer through enterprise software management tooling; the vendor advisory is available at http://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Critical
Product Status
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Fixed
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Fixed
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Affected

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