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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ExploitPage abuses Extensions access-control flaw
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ExecutionRead sensitive cross-context data
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ImpactExfiltrate leaked information to attacker
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion 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 open a crafted HTML page in a vulnerable Chrome build prior to 156.0.8078.47 (UI:R), and the flaw resides specifically in the Extensions subsystem's access-control handling, so an exploit must drive that extension/renderer context to disclose data. No authentication is required (PR:N) and the attack is remote (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L). The principal limiting factor is the mandatory user interaction - there is no drive-by/zero-click path; the attacker must get the target to load malicious content. Impact is confined to information disclosure (no integrity or availability effect), further bounding realistic risk. |
| Impact | The input CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, base 6.5) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated issue whose only real barrier is required user interaction (UI:R) - the victim must load attacker-controlled content. Impact is confidentiality-only (C:H/I:N/A:N), consistent with an information-leak primitive rather than code execution. No EPSS score was provided, and there is no CISA KEV listing or POC indicator in the supplied data, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' Chromium itself rated this Medium severity, and the description hedges with 'potentially leak sensitive information,' which argues against the C:H in the supplied vector - the practical confidentiality impact may be partial/conditional rather than full, so the real-world priority is moderate, not critical. The dominant risk driver is prevalence (Chrome is effectively everywhere), not exploitability. Conflict to verify: the supplied vector asserts C:H while the vendor rating (Medium) and the tentative language ('potentially') suggest a lower confidentiality impact - verify exact leaked data scope with the Chrome advisory. Net: patch on normal browser-update cadence; this is a widely-exposed but interaction-gated, confidentiality-only flaw, not an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts or injects a crafted HTML page and lures a victim running a vulnerable Chrome build to open it (UI:R). The page abuses improper access control in the Extensions subsystem to read sensitive information the renderer should not expose cross-context, exfiltrating it to the attacker. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026
Sensitive information disclosure in Google Chrome's Extensions subsystem affects builds prior to 156.0.8078.47, where improper access control lets a remote attacker use a crafted HTML page to read data that should be isolated from web content. Exploitation is not zero-click: the victim must load the attacker's page in a vulnerable browser (UI:R), though no authentication or credentials are needed and the attack path is remote and low complexity. Google rates the issue Medium (Chromium severity) and has released a fixed build; no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis, and the realistic impact is bounded to confidentiality loss with no integrity or availability effect.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Google Chrome to 156.0.8078.47 or later, per the stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_02018666648.html. Because Chrome auto-updates, the practical priorities are confirming the deployed build via chrome://version (or your endpoint management inventory) and force-restarting browsers that have downloaded but not applied the update; managed fleets should pin the minimum version in their software policies. If immediate upgrading is not possible, compensating controls include restricting extension installs and runtime access through enterprise policies (ExtensionInstallAllowlist / ExtensionInstallBlocklist / ExtensionSettings) so only vetted extensions run, which reduces the privileged extension surface an attacker can pivot into - at the cost of breaking unapproved but business-used extensions. Disabling or removing unused extensions and blocking untrusted content that users would open in Chrome lowers exposure but does not eliminate the underlying access-control defect. Note that these are interim measures only; none of them remove the flaw, and the issue requires user interaction to trigger, so user awareness around opening unsolicited HTML content provides marginal additional risk reduction. Track the Chromium issue at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/501738293 for any backport or additional hardening guidance.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is classified as CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) and lives specifically in Chrome's Extensions component, the subsystem that mediates privileged extension APIs, extension contexts, and the renderer processes that host web content. Chrome's security model depends on keeping extension-privileged execution contexts strictly separated from ordinary web-origin renderers; a crafted HTML page that can cross that boundary may cause the browser to expose data (for example extension-associated state or privileged resources) to attacker-controlled content. The attack is network-delivered (AV:N) at low complexity (AC:L) with no privileges required (PR:N), but it is gated by user interaction (UI:R) - there is no drive-by/zero-click route, since the target must open the malicious page in a vulnerable build. Our independent assessment scores confidentiality as Low (C:L) rather than the input vector's High (C:H), because the disclosure is constrained by the extension/renderer context that the exploit must first reach; the NVD base score of 6.5 reflects the higher confidentiality assumption. This discrepancy should be treated as an upper-versus-lower bound on data exposure rather than as evidence of a more severe primitive. Related Chromium issue tracking is at issues.chromium.org/issues/501738293.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Remote, no auth, low complexity, but requires the victim to load a crafted page (UI:R); impact is confidentiality-only and, given 'potentially leak' and the vendor Medium rating, assessed as partial (C:L).
Primary rating from Vendor (google).
CVSS VectorVendor: google
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4DescriptionCVE.org
Improper access control in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 156.0.8078.47 allowed a remote attacker to potentially leak sensitive information via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-105517
GHSA-rfx5-rp7q-7g2x
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