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Google Chrome CVE-2026-17816

| EUVDEUVD-2026-50765 HIGH
Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269)
2026-07-30 Chrome GHSA-frx2-g4p6-x329
High
Disputed · 7.5 Vendor: Chrome
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Severity by source

Sources disagree (Medium–Critical)
Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
7.1 HIGH

Requires a pre-compromised renderer (foothold), so PR:L not PR:N; AC:H and UI:R for the chained crafted-page step; full C/I/A impact from sandbox privilege escalation.

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

vuln.today treats the vendor’s rating as authoritative. A higher third-party CVSS (e.g. CISA-ADP) is shown for transparency but does not drive the headline severity.

CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

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

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 30, 2026 - 13:26 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 30, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
7.5 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jul 30, 2026 - 02:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:19 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:19 cve.org
HIGH 7.5

DescriptionCVE.org

Insufficient policy enforcement in Speech in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

AnalysisAI

Privilege escalation in Google Chrome on Android before 151.0.7922.72 lets a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process escape further via insufficient policy enforcement in the Speech component and a crafted HTML page. Rated Medium by Chromium but scored CVSS 7.5, it enables a second-stage sandbox/privilege boundary bypass rather than initial access. …

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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata

Access
Compromise renderer via separate bug
Delivery
Serve crafted HTML page
Exploit
Abuse Speech policy enforcement gap
Execution
Escalate privileges beyond sandbox
Impact
Gain higher-privileged code execution

Vulnerability AssessmentAI

Exploitation Exploitation requires that the attacker has ALREADY compromised the Chrome renderer process on Android - this bug is a second-stage privilege escalation, not an initial-access vector. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H = 7.5) reports high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact but high attack complexity and required user interaction, which tempers real-world exploitability. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
Exploit Scenario An attacker first exploits a separate renderer-level bug to gain code execution inside Chrome's sandboxed renderer on an Android device, then serves or navigates the victim to a crafted HTML page that abuses the Speech component's weak policy enforcement to escalate privileges beyond the sandbox. The high attack complexity and required user interaction (loading the malicious page) mean this is a targeted, chained attack rather than a mass-exploitable one; no public POC is identified at time of analysis.
Remediation Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome on Android to version 151.0.7922.72 or later, which is delivered through the Chrome Stable channel and Google Play; see the advisory at https://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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