Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessHost crafted HTML page
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DeliveryLure Android Chrome user to visit
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ExploitTrigger Omnibox URL misrepresentation
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ExecutionDisplay spoofed trusted address bar
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ImpactHarvest credentials via phishing
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security UI security representation
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to open a crafted HTML page in Google Chrome for Android on a version prior to 154.0.8037.92 (UI:R - user interaction is mandatory). No authentication or special privileges are needed (PR:N), and the attack works remotely over the web against default browser configurations. The practical limiting factors are: the attacker must first entice the target to navigate to the malicious page, the impact is confined to visually misrepresenting the Omnibox/address bar (no data theft or code execution), and only the Android build is affected, so desktop and iOS Chrome users are out of scope. |
| Impact | All signals converge on LOW real-world priority despite the 'High' Chromium severity label. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 4.3) describes a network-reachable but user-interaction-dependent issue with no confidentiality or availability impact and only low integrity impact - consistent with an address-bar spoof rather than code execution. CISA's SSVC framework reinforces this: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial, which maps to a 'Track' (not 'Act') decision. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC was provided, so there is no evidence of active or likely near-term exploitation. Note the tension between the vendor's internal 'High' rating (which reflects browser-security triage conventions for spoofing bugs that facilitate phishing) and the objectively modest CVSS base score - the 'High' label denotes remediation urgency within Chrome's release process, not high real-world risk to a patched fleet. Bottom line: a genuine but low-severity UI-integrity flaw; deploy the vendor update in the normal patch cycle, not as an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a crafted HTML page and lures an Android Chrome user to visit it (e.g., via a link in a message or ad). The page manipulates the Omnibox rendering so the displayed URL does not match the actual origin, letting the attacker present a trusted-looking address bar over attacker-controlled content to support credential phishing or scam delivery. No public exploit was identified at time of analysis, and success requires the victim to actually open the page (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
Address-bar spoofing in Google Chrome for Android versions prior to 154.0.8037.92 lets a remote attacker misrepresent the Omnibox (URL bar) to a victim who opens a crafted HTML page, according to Google's own Chromium severity rating of High. The assessed CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, 4.3) confirms this is an unauthenticated, network-reachable attack that hinges entirely on user interaction, with only a low-integrity impact on the browser UI and no confidentiality or availability loss, and the CISA SSVC assessment (Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, Technical Impact: partial) places it at low real-world priority. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not in CISA KEV; the practical limitation is that the attacker must first lure the target to a malicious page, and only the Android build is affected - desktop and iOS Chrome users are out of scope.
RemediationAI
Apply the vendor-released patch: Google Chrome for Android 154.0.8037.92 or later, which Google published via the stable-channel update at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_01807488085.html; the fix is tracked upstream at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/551668264. Update through the Google Play Store (or managed Play policies for enterprise fleets) and confirm the installed version, since Android Chrome auto-update can lag on devices with deferred or metered update settings. Because this is a low-severity UI-spoofing issue with no KEV exploitation and no identified public exploit, disabling JavaScript or other aggressive browser hardening is not warranted and would break functionality without meaningful benefit; the compensating control trade-off here is user education - train users to distrust address-bar appearance and to navigate to sensitive sites via bookmarks or typed domains rather than links in unsolicited messages, and layer phishing-resistant MFA and origin-bound password managers so that credentials cannot be harvested even if the spoofed Omnibox is believed. If a device cannot be updated promptly, restricting high-value web activity (banking, SSO portals) away from that device is the most effective short-term mitigation, accepting the operational inconvenience of a secondary managed browser or desktop.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is classified as CWE-451 (User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information) and resides in the Omnibox - the combined address and search bar of Chromium-based browsers - specifically in the Android rendering path. The affected component is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, and the impacted build stream is Google Chrome for Android prior to 154.0.8037.92 (tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2026-89375). In effect, crafted HTML can cause the browser chrome to display origin/URL information that does not match the actual loaded document, undermining the primary trust signal users rely on to judge site identity. The attack is purely client-side: the CVSS vector requires no privileges (PR:N) and no authentication, but mandates that the victim voluntarily navigate to attacker-controlled content (UI:R). Because the impact is scored as Integrity:Low with no Confidentiality or Availability effect, this is a UI-trust/phishing-assist defect rather than a memory-corruption or code-execution bug; the SSVC 'Automatable: no' and 'Technical Impact: partial' ratings are consistent with that constrained scope.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Web-delivered spoof needing victim navigation (UI:R), no auth (PR:N); only low integrity impact from address-bar misrepresentation, no confidentiality or availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
UI misrepresentation in Omnibox in Google Chrome on on Android prior to 154.0.8037.92 allowed a remote attacker to spoof address bar via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
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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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