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Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Reading List in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
AnalysisAI
Privilege escalation in Google Chrome for iOS prior to 149.0.7827.53 allows remote attackers to elevate privileges when a victim is lured into performing specific UI gestures on a crafted HTML page. The flaw stems from insufficient input validation in the Reading List feature and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8, though EPSS is low at 0.05% and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Google rates the underlying Chromium severity as Low despite the high CVSS, suggesting realistic exploitability is constrained by the required user interaction.
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerability lives in Chrome's Reading List component on the iOS platform, a feature that saves web pages for offline reading and is implemented via Chromium's iOS port (which uses WebKit under Apple's App Store policies rather than Blink). The root cause is classified as CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), meaning data parsed from an attacker-controlled HTML page is not sufficiently sanitized before being acted upon, enabling an unintended state transition or action when combined with crafted UI interactions. Because Chrome on iOS shares the system WebKit engine but layers Chromium UI and feature code on top, the Reading List handler is part of Google's own iOS-specific code path rather than upstream Blink.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Chrome for iOS 149.0.7827.53 - update via the Apple App Store as the primary fix, referencing the Chrome Releases advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html and the Chromium issue tracker entry at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/501747321. Because Chrome on iOS auto-updates through the App Store, ensure managed iOS fleets (MDM-supervised devices) have App Store updates enabled or push the updated build via managed app distribution. As a temporary compensating control where patching is delayed, advise users to avoid using the Reading List feature on untrusted pages and to refrain from performing prompted UI gestures (long-press, share-sheet interactions) on unfamiliar sites; the trade-off is loss of Reading List usability but no other functional impact. There is no server-side or network-layer mitigation that meaningfully blocks this client-side issue.
Same weakness CWE-20 – Improper Input Validation
View allSame technique Privilege Escalation
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SUSE
Severity: Important| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
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EUVD-2026-34733
GHSA-wgh9-28v2-8v35