Severity by source
Sources disagree (Low–High)AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remote crafted page with required user interaction (UI:R), no auth (PR:N); impact lowered to C:L/I:L/A:N since a Serial policy-enforcement bypass is niche and Chromium rates it Low, not full-system CIA.
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: google
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Insufficient policy enforcement in Serial in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
AnalysisAI
Privilege escalation in Google Chrome desktop before 150.0.7871.47 stems from insufficient policy enforcement in the Serial (Web Serial API) component, allowing a remote attacker who lures a victim to a crafted HTML page to escalate privileges within the browser. Note the signal conflict: NVD scores this 8.8 (High) with high confidentiality/integrity/availability impact, yet Chromium's own triage rates the security severity as Low. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV; EPSS is very low at 0.17% (7th percentile).
Technical ContextAI
The flaw lives in Chrome's Serial subsystem, which implements the Web Serial API - a browser capability that lets web pages request access to local serial (COM/tty) ports after a user permission prompt. The root cause maps to CWE-602 (Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security), a class of bug where a security decision or policy that should be strictly enforced is instead applied too loosely or on the wrong side of a trust boundary, letting a page bypass the intended permission/policy gate. In practice, insufficient policy enforcement in this component can let a page reach serial-related privileges it should not have, expanding the attack surface exposed to untrusted web content. Affected CPE-wise: Google Chrome desktop builds prior to 150.0.7871.47; the underlying Chromium engine means Chromium-derived browsers may share the code path.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Chrome 150.0.7871.47 - upgrade to this Stable release or later, which for most users happens automatically via Chrome's background updater; confirm the version under Settings > About Google Chrome and relaunch to apply. Reference the Chrome Releases advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0175352312.html for the full stable-channel bulletin. In managed/enterprise fleets, push the update through your Chrome update policy or software distribution system and verify the reported version across endpoints. As an interim compensating control until updated, restrict the Web Serial API via enterprise policy (for example the DefaultSerialGuardSetting / SerialAskForUrls-style device policies) to block or gate serial-port access, which closes the exposed feature at the cost of breaking legitimate WebSerial-based tools (hardware programmers, some web-based device configurators). Chromium-based browsers should receive their vendor's equivalent update.
Same technique Privilege Escalation
View allVendor StatusVendor
SUSE
Severity: Important| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
Share
External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-40728
GHSA-499r-fh8q-qcfc