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Chrome for iOS EUVDEUVD-2026-93579

| CVE-2026-106351 MEDIUM
Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203)
2026-10-06 Chrome GHSA-28fq-369x-45wr
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Chrome
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Compromise renderer via separate flaw
  2. Exploit
    Load crafted HTML page
  3. Execution
    Observe Safe Browsing discrepancy
  4. Impact
    Infer and exfiltrate sensitive information

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Timing-safe comparisons
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the attacker to have ALREADY compromised Chrome's renderer process on iOS (a prior, separate exploit is a hard prerequisite), and then to serve a crafted HTML page to the victim, implying required user interaction (UI:R) to load the page. The specific affected component is the Safe Browsing feature in Chrome for iOS prior to 155.0.8059.39; the flaw is an observable discrepancy (CWE-203 side channel) rather than a direct read primitive. Limiting factors that reduce realistic risk: the renderer-compromise precondition, the need for user interaction, the restriction to the iOS platform, and high attack complexity (AC:H). There is no indication of active exploitation (SSVC Exploitation=none, not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Impact

This is a medium-severity information-disclosure issue (CVSS 5.3) whose real-world risk is tempered by a significant precondition that the raw CVSS vector understates. The vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) marks the attack as network-reachable and unauthenticated, but the description explicitly states the attacker must have ALREADY compromised the renderer process - a substantial prerequisite that Chrome's sandbox threat model treats as a separate chaining step rather than a 'privilege,' which is why PR is scored N while AC is H. These two signals should be read together: this is a post-renderer-exploit information leak, not a standalone remote drive-by. Supporting signals all point to low urgency: SSVC reports Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial, and there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit. No EPSS score was provided in the input, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified here. The C:H rating for a CWE-203 observable-discrepancy side channel also appears aggressive relative to the described impact (leaking 'sensitive information' via a timing/behavioral discrepancy typically yields limited data); this disagreement is noted rather than treated as confirmed. Net assessment: a genuine but low-priority defense-in-depth fix, meaningful mainly as the second link in an exploit chain, not an independent high-risk threat.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who has already achieved code execution in Chrome's renderer process (via a separate prior vulnerability) lures or redirects the victim to a crafted HTML page. By observing a discrepancy in the Safe Browsing component's behavior, the compromised renderer infers sensitive information it should not be able to read. No public exploit code was identified for this specific issue, and the high attack complexity reflects the need for a pre-existing renderer compromise plus user interaction.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026

Information disclosure in Google Chrome for iOS (Google's Safe Browsing component) affects versions prior to 155.0.8059.39, where a crafted HTML page can be used to observe a measurable discrepancy and extract sensitive information. The flaw is only reachable by a remote attacker who has already compromised Chrome's renderer process on iOS and who can get the victim to load the crafted page (UI:R), making exploitation a two-stage, high-complexity (AC:H) operation rather than a standalone attack, and CISA's SSVC assessment records Exploitation=None. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; Chromium rates the bug Medium and the vendor has released a patch, so the practical risk is best characterized as moderate with a strong precondition rather than imminent.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade Chrome for iOS to version 155.0.8059.39 or later via the App Store, which remediates the Safe Browsing observable discrepancy; see the stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html and the Chromium tracker at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/553164077. Because the vulnerability is only reachable after an attacker has already compromised the renderer process, the highest-value compensating control is preventing that prerequisite: keep the iOS device and Chrome current (renderer exploits are typically chained from other bugs), avoid untrusted or unsolicited HTML pages, and rely on iOS app sandboxing and platform-level exploit mitigations. Users who cannot update immediately have no clean Safe Browsing toggle that removes the exposure without weakening phishing/malware protection - disabling Safe Browsing on iOS is not generally exposed as a user setting and, where it can be turned off via enterprise policy or management profiles, it trades this low-severity side channel for a substantial loss of protection against malicious sites, so it is not recommended. Blocking the crafted-page vector at the network layer (proxy/URL filtering of untrusted content) is possible in managed environments but adds latency and maintenance overhead and does not address a renderer that is already compromised. No public exploit code is known at time of analysis, and no additional vendor workaround beyond upgrading has been published.

Affected VersionsENISA

Chrome 155.0.8059.39 <155.0.8059.39

Affected Packages

euvd chrome fix: 155.0.8059.39

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause falls under CWE-203 (Observable Discrepancy), a side-channel class in which a program's behavior or timing differs in a way that leaks information about internal state or data. Here the affected subsystem is Safe Browsing, Chrome's URL-reputation and blocklist-checking feature, running in the iOS build of Chrome. Because Safe Browsing performs lookups whose observable behavior can vary depending on whether a URL matches a blocklist entry or other internal state, a page controlled by an attacker can probe those differences and infer sensitive information. The supplied CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N describes an unauthenticated (PR:N) network-reachable (AV:N) issue that requires user interaction (UI:R) and high attack complexity (AC:H), with confidentiality-only impact and no integrity or availability effect; the vendor score is 5.3. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* is unversioned and platform-agnostic, so CPE-based scanning will over-match all Chrome builds across all platforms rather than isolating the vulnerable iOS Safe Browsing code path - the authoritative scoping constraint is the iOS platform plus the 'prior to 155.0.8059.39' version boundary, mirrored in ENISA EUVD-2026-93579. Note also that Google's own vector assigns a high confidentiality rating (C:H), whereas this analysis scopes the realized confidentiality impact to Low (C:L) because the renderer-compromise precondition and the side-channel nature of CWE-203 limit what can realistically be extracted; the score should not be read as a direct data-read primitive.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY 5.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 3.1 LOW

Requires a pre-compromised renderer plus user interaction (AC:H, UI:R); PR:N kept per Chrome's sandbox model; C:L because a CWE-203 observable discrepancy yields limited information rather than full disclosure.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Red Hat 6.5 MEDIUM

Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).

CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

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

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Oct 06, 2026 - 20:22 NVD
5.3 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Oct 06, 2026 - 20:04 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 06, 2026 - 18:41 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Oct 06, 2026 - 18:41 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.3

DescriptionCVE.org

Observable discrepancy in Safebrowsing in Google Chrome on on iOS prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 90% exploitable
Prevalence
High
Chrome is near-ubiquitous as a browser, but this flaw is scoped to the iOS build only
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

26
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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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