Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessHost crafted video on web page
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DeliveryLure victim to open page in Chrome
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ExploitCodec parses malformed video
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ExecutionTrigger out-of-bounds memory read
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ImpactLeak adjacent process memory
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 | Requires the victim to load attacker-controlled crafted video content in a Google Chrome desktop build prior to 147.0.7727.55 (UI:R - user interaction is mandatory). Exploitation is limited by: the need for user interaction (no drive-by without media load), Chrome's sandbox and memory-safety mitigations, the low technical impact (partial confidentiality only, no code execution or availability loss), and the fact that it is not automatable at scale (SSVC Automatable: no). No authentication is required (PR:N), but there is no impact on default configurations beyond a bounded memory over-read. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue and the multiple signals agree, which is unusual and reassuring. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, base 4.3) matches Chromium's own 'Low' severity rating: the only measurable impact is a partial confidentiality leak (C:L), with no integrity or availability effect. CISA's SSVC framework independently supports low urgency - Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, Technical Impact: partial - meaning no observed exploitation and no way to reliably automate mass exploitation (each attack needs a victim to load a crafted video). There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public proof-of-concept identified at time of analysis. The one caveat: the description says 'out of bounds memory access,' which is ambiguous between read and write, but the vendor CVSS scores I:N/A:N and C:L, indicating this is effectively an out-of-bounds READ / information disclosure rather than a memory-corruption/RCE primitive - the 'Information Disclosure' tag is consistent with this. No signals conflict; the only genuinely unknown factor is the precise nature of the leaked memory contents, which the sparse Chromium issue tracker entry does not disclose publicly. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts or serves a specially crafted video file and lures a victim into visiting a web page (or opening media) in a vulnerable Chrome build before 147.0.7727.55. When Chrome's codec parses the malformed video, it reads out of bounds, potentially exposing small amounts of adjacent process memory to the attacker-influenced context. No public exploit code has been identified, and the attack requires the user to load the malicious content (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 28, 2026
Out-of-bounds memory access in Google Chrome's video codec handling - fixed in the 147.0.7727.55 desktop release - can be triggered when a victim loads a crafted video file, resulting in a bounded memory over-read that leaks limited process data rather than enabling code execution. The issue is network-reachable without authentication (CVSS PR:N) but strictly requires the user to load attacker-controlled media (UI:R), and CISA's SSVC assessment classifies it as non-automatable with only partial technical impact; no public exploit code identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. With a CVSS base of 4.3 and Chromium's own rating of 'Low', this is a low-priority, routine-patching issue, notable mainly because Chrome's ubiquity makes even low-severity memory-safety defects worth closing promptly.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Chrome 147.0.7727.55 - upgrade Google Chrome desktop to that release or later, and confirm the running build via chrome://version or your enterprise software-inventory tooling; the official details are in the stable-channel update at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html. There is no separate manual mitigation for the codec defect itself, so speed of update deployment is the control - most fleets receive this automatically via the built-in updater, and browsers that failed to relaunch will keep the vulnerable build in memory, so a forced restart is worth enforcing. If immediate updating is not possible, the practical compensating controls are to keep the Chrome sandbox enabled and not disable site isolation (both reduce the value of a memory over-read and have minimal user-visible cost), and to restrict users from opening untrusted video files or untrusted video-bearing web content through policy/training - a measure with real usability trade-offs and only partial coverage, since legitimate media is also the attack vector. Chromium-derived browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera) will pick up the fix when they rebase on Chromium 147.0.7727.55 or later, so align those update cycles as well. The linked Chromium tracker entry is access-restricted and provides no additional mitigation guidance beyond the release note.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is classified as CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) in Chrome's media codec stack: a crafted video container/bitstream reaches parser logic that fails to sufficiently validate untrusted input before using it in a memory access, producing a potential out-of-bounds read. Because the impact is confined to confidentiality (C:L) with no integrity or availability effect (I:N/A:N) and no scope change (S:U), the practical outcome is disclosure of adjacent memory contents rather than control-flow hijack - consistent with the privacy/information-disclosure tagging on the CVE and the 'Low' Chromium severity rating. The attack surface is the standard browser media-playback path (AV:N, AC:L) rather than a privileged component, but the mandatory user interaction (UI:R) plus Chrome's multi-process sandbox and existing memory-safety mitigations sharply limit real-world exploitability; CISA's SSVC decision points (Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, Technical Impact: partial) match that picture. No CPE strings were supplied with this record, so the affected surface is defined by the version threshold from the EUVD entry (Chrome builds below 147.0.7727.55) rather than by an explicit CPE list. EUVD tracks the issue as EUVD-2026-88441, and the upstream Chromium tracker reference (issues.chromium.org/issues/487950074) is a restricted bug record that typically becomes readable only alongside the public stable-channel release note.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Remote crafted-file delivery (AV:N) needs the victim to open the video (UI:R), no auth (PR:N); out-of-bounds read leaks limited memory (C:L) with no integrity or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (google).
CVSS VectorVendor: google
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Codecs in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.55 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted video file. (Chromium security severity: Low)
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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