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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-50723

| CVE-2026-17774 HIGH
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
2026-07-30 Chrome GHSA-5r9f-54v2-c4hq
High
Disputed · 7.5 Vendor: Chrome
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Severity by source

Sources disagree (Medium–Critical)
Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
7.5 HIGH
AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
6.4 MEDIUM

Adjacent MITM position (AV:A) and high complexity to win the heap-corruption race (AC:H); crash/DoS is reliable (A:H) but code-exec confidentiality/integrity impact is only potential (C:L/I:L).

3.1 AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
4.0 AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
CRITICAL
qualitative
Red Hat
6.3 MEDIUM
qualitative

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: Chrome

Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 30, 2026 - 13:25 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 30, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
7.5 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jul 30, 2026 - 02:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:19 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:19 cve.org
HIGH 7.5

DescriptionCVE.org

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Variations in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker in a privileged network position to potentially exploit heap corruption via malicious network traffic. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

AnalysisAI

Heap corruption in Google Chrome's Variations component before 151.0.7922.72 lets an attacker holding a privileged network position (an on-path / man-in-the-middle attacker) corrupt memory by delivering malicious network traffic, stemming from CWE-20 insufficient input validation. Google rates the Chromium severity as Medium and has shipped a fixed Stable-channel build; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the flaw is not in CISA KEV. Because Variations (Chrome's server-driven feature-flag/experiment system) is fetched at startup in the browser process, a successful attacker could turn intercepted config traffic into a memory-safety primitive.

Technical ContextAI

The affected component is Chrome Variations, the mechanism Chromium uses to roll out feature experiments and field trials by fetching an encoded seed from Google servers over the network. The root cause is CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation): the Variations code insufficiently validates untrusted network data, producing heap corruption when a malformed payload is parsed. The single affected product per CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome (all versions prior to 151.0.7922.72). Heap corruption during Variations parsing is notable because it occurs in the higher-privileged browser process rather than a sandboxed renderer, though escalation to full code execution is described by the vendor only as 'potentially' and is not confirmed.

RemediationAI

Update Google Chrome to 151.0.7922.72 or later via the Stable channel - this is a vendor-released patch (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html); in managed fleets confirm auto-update is enabled and force a relaunch so the new browser-process build loads. As a compensating control until patching completes, ensure clients reach Google's Variations/update endpoints only over trusted TLS paths and deny adversary-in-the-middle positions on untrusted networks (enforce VPN on public Wi-Fi, avoid TLS-intercepting proxies for these domains); enterprises can also set the 'ChromeVariations' policy to 'VariationsDisabled', with the trade-off that Google can no longer remotely toggle features or push experiment-based mitigations. The advisory lists no additional workarounds, so upgrading is the primary fix.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Critical
Product Status
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Fixed
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Fixed
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Affected

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