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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-93593

| CVE-2026-106359 MEDIUM
Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') (CWE-441)
2026-10-06 Chrome GHSA-g3v7-wppm-f23m
4.3
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
    Lure victim to malicious page
  2. Delivery
    Serve crafted HTML payload
  3. Exploit
    Trigger confused deputy in DeviceBoundSessionCredentials
  4. Execution
    Bypass web origin policy
  5. Impact
    Misuse cross-origin session credential handling

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service Proxy/intermediary controls
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the victim to use an unpatched Chrome build prior to 155.0.8059.39 and to actively visit an attacker-controlled web page containing crafted HTML (UI:R), which is the sole triggering vector against default configurations - no special Chrome setting or non-default feature is named in the description. No authentication or prior privilege is required of the attacker (PR:N), and no victim credentials are needed to serve the page. Limiting factors that reduce realistic risk: mandatory user interaction (the victim must navigate to the page), impact confined to an integrity-only web-origin-policy bypass within the DeviceBoundSessionCredentials component (C:N/A:N, scope unchanged), and the narrow nature of the confused-deputy condition rather than arbitrary code execution.

Impact

This is a genuinely low-priority issue, and the signals are consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) yields 4.3 and reflects a network-reachable but user-interaction-dependent flaw with only limited integrity impact and no confidentiality or availability impact - Google's own Chromium rating of 'Low' agrees. EPSS reinforces this: 0.24% probability at the 13th percentile indicates very low near-term exploitation likelihood. The vulnerability is NOT in CISA KEV and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization. The one factor that elevates real-world exposure is prevalence - Chrome is ubiquitous - but the combination of required user interaction, unchanged scope, and integrity-only impact (a web-origin/same-origin policy bypass rather than code execution or data theft) keeps the practical risk modest. This is a legitimately low-severity, high-CVSS-it-is-not case: patch on your normal Chrome update cadence rather than as an emergency.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker hosts a malicious web page and lures a Chrome user to visit it; the crafted HTML triggers a confused-deputy condition in the DeviceBoundSessionCredentials component that causes Chrome to act across web origins it should keep separated, bypassing origin policy to tamper with or misuse session-bound credential handling. No public exploit code is identified, and the attack requires the victim to actively load the attacker's page (UI:R).

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 09, 2026

An origin-policy bypass in Chrome's DeviceBoundSessionCredentials component allows remote attackers to make the browser act as a confused deputy for an untrusted site via a crafted HTML page, affecting Chrome builds prior to 155.0.8059.39 (Chromium security severity: Low, CVSS 4.3). Exploitation is network-reachable and requires no attacker authentication (PR:N), but it depends entirely on the victim navigating to an attacker-controlled page (UI:R) and is limited to an integrity impact on web origin rules (C:N/I:L/A:N). No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, the issue is not in CISA KEV, and EPSS is low at 0.24% (13th percentile), which is consistent with the low-priority assessment of this defect.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: 155.0.8059.39 - upgrade Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later, which resolves the DeviceBoundSessionCredentials confused-deputy issue as documented in the stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html (mirrored on the Chromium issue at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/500532594). In practice this means enabling the browser's auto-update and confirming the reported version reaches 155.0.8059.39, or force-applying the update through enterprise management (Chrome Browser Cloud Management, Google Update policies, or your software distribution tooling) - note that force-restart policies will terminate open sessions and may interrupt users, so schedule accordingly. Because the only trigger is a victim visiting an attacker-controlled page, interim risk reduction is limited to blocking known-malicious or untrusted origins through URL filtering, DNS/proxy denylists, or a hardened extension policy, though such controls are inherently incomplete against newly registered or compromised sites and only raise the interaction cost rather than removing the defect. If an organization does not depend on DBSC, evaluate whether the relevant enterprise policy or feature configuration can be disabled or left unenrolled until the fleet is patched; the trade-off is loss of the device-bound session protection that DBSC provides, and any such setting should be reverted once 155.0.8059.39 is deployed. Given the integrity-only, interaction-dependent nature of the issue and the absence of KEV listing or known exploit code, urgent emergency change procedures are not warranted, but the update should be folded into the next routine Chrome maintenance window for all affected endpoints and Chromium-derived browsers.

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 flaw is a confused-deputy condition (CWE-441) inside DeviceBound Session Credentials (DBSC), the Chrome mechanism that cryptographically binds a login session to a specific device using a hardware-backed key so that stolen session cookies are useless on another machine. In a confused deputy, a privileged component that holds authority (here, the browser's DBSC machinery acting for a legitimate origin) is induced by a less-privileged caller (a crafted page) to exercise that authority on the caller's behalf, so the boundary that should confine actions to their true origin is crossed. The assessed CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N confirms the trigger is a remote HTML page requiring victim interaction, with the outcome restricted to a low-severity integrity failure of web origin policy inside the browser process rather than code execution, sandbox escape, or credential disclosure. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* is unversioned in the feed, so the definitive affected boundary comes from the vendor advisory and EUVD entry, which both scope the issue to builds earlier than 155.0.8059.39.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Remote crafted page needs no privileges (PR:N) but requires the victim to visit it (UI:R); the flaw is an origin-policy bypass giving limited integrity impact only (I:L, C:N/A:N).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Red Hat 4.3 LOW

Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).

CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

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

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Oct 09, 2026 - 02:22 NVD
4.3 (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 4.3

DescriptionCVE.org

Confused deputy in DeviceBoundSessionCredentials in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to bypass web origin policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 87% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
Google Chrome is among the most widely deployed browsers worldwide
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
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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