Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure user to malicious site
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DeliveryDeliver crafted HTML page
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ExploitExecute code in renderer sandbox
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ExecutionTrigger insufficient sandbox policy check
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PersistEscape renderer sandbox boundary
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ImpactAccess host resources outside sandbox
Vulnerability Assessment
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OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Protection mechanism completeness
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to be running Google Chrome on Linux at a version below 149.0.7827.53 and to visit an attacker-controlled or compromised web page containing crafted HTML (UI:R in the CVSS vector). No authentication is required on the attacker side (PR:N). The vulnerability is specific to the Linux sandbox implementation - Windows, macOS, Android, and ChromeOS builds are not listed as affected. The description's hedged language ('potentially perform a sandbox escape') and Chromium's Low severity rating imply the primitive may not be standalone-exploitable and would typically need to be chained with a separate renderer-side bug to reach meaningful impact. |
| Impact | Signals here conflict and require careful interpretation. The CVSS 3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H produces a 9.6 score driven primarily by scope change (sandbox escape crosses a trust boundary), but the user-interaction requirement (UI:R) means a victim must visit a malicious page. Chromium's own security severity is rated Low, EPSS sits at 0.03% (11th percentile), and the bug is not on the CISA KEV list - strongly suggesting this is not a priority-zero issue in practice. The description hedges with 'potentially perform a sandbox escape,' implying the issue may not produce a reliable end-to-end escape on its own, which is consistent with Chromium's Low rating. Defenders should treat this as a routine browser patch rather than an emergency, while still prioritizing it on Linux fleets because sandbox-escape primitives are commonly chained with renderer RCE bugs. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts or compromises a website serving a crafted HTML page; a Linux Chrome user visiting the page triggers the policy-enforcement weakness in the sandbox, potentially allowing renderer-context code to access resources outside the sandbox boundary. Realistically this primitive would be chained with a separate renderer code-execution bug to achieve full code execution on the host, which is the standard browser-exploit pattern. No public exploit identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jun 05, 2026
Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on Linux prior to version 149.0.7827.53 allows remote attackers to potentially break out of the renderer sandbox via a crafted HTML page when a user visits an attacker-controlled site. The flaw stems from insufficient policy enforcement in the Linux sandbox implementation and carries a high CVSS of 9.6 due to scope change, though Chromium itself rates the security severity as Low. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is very low at 0.03%.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Google Chrome on Linux to version 149.0.7827.53 or later, which is the vendor-released patch identified in the Chrome Releases stable-channel update at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html. In managed environments, push the update via your endpoint management tooling and verify rollout by inspecting chrome://version on Linux clients. If patching is delayed, compensating controls include restricting browsing to trusted sites via enterprise policy (URLBlocklist/URLAllowlist), enabling Site Isolation (already on by default but verify chrome://flags#enable-site-per-process), and disabling renderer features unnecessary for the workload - recognizing that none of these defeat a successful sandbox escape and the only durable mitigation is the patch. Removing user-namespace support at the kernel level would break Chromium's sandbox entirely and is not recommended.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Google Chrome employs a multi-process architecture in which untrusted web content is rendered inside a sandboxed process that, on Linux, relies on seccomp-bpf filters, user namespaces, and Chromium's setuid/namespace sandbox helpers to restrict syscalls and kernel attack surface. CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure) indicates the sandbox's policy layer did not adequately enforce a restriction, allowing renderer-side code to reach resources or capabilities outside the sandbox boundary. The CPE/affected-version data narrows the issue specifically to Linux builds of Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.53, implying a platform-specific gap in policy enforcement rather than a cross-platform Chromium core bug.
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Severity by source
Sources disagree (Low–Critical)AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorVendor: google
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3DescriptionCVE.org
Insufficient policy enforcement in Sandbox in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
Executive ViewAI
Google Chrome on Linux prior to version 149.0.7827.53 contains a sandbox escape vulnerability (CVSS 9.6) allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a crafted webpage. While no public exploit has been identified and exploitation probability is negligible (EPSS 0.03%), this vulnerability directly undermines Chrome's core security architecture and requires immediate patching across all Linux endpoints.
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Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
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