Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCompromise Chrome renderer process
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DeliveryDeliver crafted HTML page to victim
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ExploitTrigger WebAuthn input validation bypass
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ExecutionCircumvent same-origin policy
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ImpactRead limited cross-origin data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires two sequential preconditions: (1) the attacker must have already compromised the Chrome renderer process via a separate, unrelated vulnerability - this is the primary gating condition encoded in CVSS AC:H; (2) the victim user must interact with a crafted HTML page (CVSS UI:R), meaning the attack cannot be fully passive. Authentication is not required (PR:N), and the attack is network-delivered. Limiting factors: renderer process compromise is a high-difficulty prerequisite that filters out all but the most capable threat actors; the unchanged scope (S:U) means the browser process itself is not breached; the confidentiality impact is low (C:L), limiting the value of a successful bypass. This vulnerability is not exploitable in isolation - it is a second-stage primitive in a multi-step attack chain targeting Chrome's WebAuthentication subsystem. |
| Impact | Despite a network-accessible attack vector (AV:N), the overall risk is low and the CVSS score of 3.1 accurately reflects real-world exploitation difficulty. The AC:H flag directly encodes the requirement that an attacker has already achieved renderer process compromise - itself a distinct, high-difficulty exploit step. UI:R further limits exploitation to scenarios where a user visits a malicious page. The unchanged scope (S:U) and low confidentiality impact (C:L) with no integrity or availability loss cap the blast radius. No EPSS data was provided in the source intelligence, so exploitation probability cannot be quantitatively compared. The vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV and no publicly available exploit code has been identified, making opportunistic mass exploitation implausible. The realistic threat actor is one already capable of chaining a separate renderer exploit - likely a nation-state or advanced persistent threat targeting specific high-value individuals, not commodity attackers. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has separately exploited a renderer-process vulnerability in Chrome (e.g., a V8 engine memory corruption bug) lures a targeted user to visit a crafted HTML page. The page triggers the insufficient input validation in the WebAuthentication subsystem, causing Chrome to bypass same-origin policy checks and allowing the attacker to read limited cross-origin data accessible to the compromised renderer context. No public proof-of-concept has been identified, and this scenario requires chaining at least two distinct vulnerabilities. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jun 05, 2026
Same-origin policy bypass in Google Chrome's WebAuthentication component affects all Chrome versions prior to 149.0.7827.53, exploitable only by a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process. Insufficient input validation in the WebAuthn subsystem allows crafted HTML pages to circumvent same-origin restrictions, resulting in limited confidentiality disclosure (C:L). Chromium's own severity classification is Low, consistent with the CVSS 3.1 score of 3.1, and no public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis. The mandatory prerequisite of renderer process compromise significantly constrains the realistic attacker population to sophisticated, multi-stage threat actors.
RemediationAI
Update Google Chrome to version 149.0.7827.53 or later, which contains the vendor-released patch per the stable channel update advisory at chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html. Chrome's auto-update mechanism will deliver this fix automatically in most managed and consumer environments; administrators should verify deployment via enterprise policy or endpoint telemetry. Because exploitation requires prior renderer compromise, organizations that have not already done so should enable Chrome's Site Isolation feature (--site-per-process, enabled by default in recent Chrome versions) and enforce renderer sandbox policies, as these controls independently reduce the likelihood that a renderer compromise can be achieved as the prerequisite step. No workaround that eliminates this specific same-origin bypass without upgrading has been identified in the available intelligence.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability resides in Chrome's WebAuthentication (WebAuthn) implementation, the browser subsystem handling FIDO2/passkey credential flows. CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) identifies the root cause: attacker-controlled input from a crafted HTML page is not sufficiently sanitized or validated before being processed within the WebAuthn code path. Because Chrome's multi-process architecture isolates renderer processes from the browser process, the attacker must first breach that sandbox - a non-trivial precondition. The CVSS vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N reflects a network-reachable flaw requiring high attack complexity (the renderer compromise) and user interaction (visiting a crafted page), with impact limited to low confidentiality loss and no scope change. Affected CPE is all Chrome desktop releases prior to 149.0.7827.53 per EUVD entry EUVD-2026-34705.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Primary rating from Vendor (google) · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorVendor: google
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in WebAuthentication in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to bypass same origin policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-34705
GHSA-q6p3-5hc9-mj6w
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