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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-93619

| CVE-2026-106417 CRITICAL
Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190)
2026-10-06 Chrome GHSA-cjxm-q4cw-2vp3
Critical
Disputed · 9.6 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 crafted HTML page
  2. Delivery
    Deliver malformed media payload
  3. Exploit
    Trigger integer overflow in Media component
  4. Execution
    Corrupt memory to escape sandbox
  5. Impact
    Execute arbitrary code on host

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Integer overflow checks
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the victim to open an attacker-controlled or compromised HTML page in Chrome that contains crafted media content processed by the vulnerable Media component - the CVSS UI:R confirms mandatory user interaction (visiting/loading the page), which is the primary limiting factor. No authentication or elevated privileges are needed (PR:N). The attack targets Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39 on default configurations; the description's qualifier 'potentially execute arbitrary code' plus Google's 'Low' Chromium severity indicate the sandbox escape is not reliably achievable and may depend on specific memory conditions or chaining with other primitives, substantially limiting practical exploitation.

Impact

The input presents a stark conflict between signals that must be resolved before prioritization. The supplied CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H, base 9.6 Critical) describes a remotely reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated flaw that only requires a user to open a page, with a scope change consistent with the description's claim of code execution 'outside the sandbox' - on paper a top-tier browser RCE. However, Google's own Chromium security rating is explicitly 'Low', which directly contradicts the 9.6 Critical CVSS and is the single most important discrepancy here: a genuine reliable sandbox escape would normally be rated Critical/High by Chromium, so the 'Low' rating suggests the real-world exploitability is far more constrained than the CVSS implies (e.g. the overflow may only 'potentially' lead to escape under hard-to-reach conditions, as the word 'potentially' in the description hints). No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided, so there is no evidence of active or imminent exploitation; the finding was reported internally by Google's Chrome team rather than observed in attacks. Net assessment: treat this as a standard 'patch promptly in the normal Chrome auto-update cycle' browser vulnerability rather than an emergency. The CVSS-vs-Chromium-severity conflict should be resolved in favor of the vendor's 'Low' for urgency purposes, while still patching because the theoretical impact (sandbox escape) is high. This is a high-nominal-CVSS but likely low-real-risk issue absent exploitation signals.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker hosts or compromises a web page containing malformed media content that triggers an integer overflow in Chrome's Media component when the victim browses to it. If the overflow is successfully leveraged, it could corrupt memory in a way that escapes the renderer sandbox and runs attacker code on the victim's machine. No public exploit code was identified, and Google rates the practical severity as Low, so reliable weaponization is likely difficult.

Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Why: CRITICAL severity.
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026

Integer overflow in the Media component of Google Chrome (all versions prior to 155.0.8059.39) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page containing specially formed media content, with the potential to execute arbitrary code outside the browser sandbox. Exploitation is not automatic: the CVSS vector (UI:R) confirms the victim must actively load the attacker-controlled or compromised page, and Google rated this a Chromium severity of 'Low', indicating the sandbox-escape outcome is not reliably achievable and probably depends on specific memory conditions or combining this primitive with others. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV entry were identified at time of analysis; the 9.6 score reflects the scope-change metric (S:C) and high C/I/A impact rather than proven real-world exploitation, so the practical risk is lower than the headline score suggests.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade Google Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later, delivered through the Stable Channel release described in the vendor advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html, with technical detail at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/536471438. End users should force the update via chrome://settings/help and fully restart the browser (a background update does not take effect until all Chrome processes are restarted); enterprises should push the 155.0.8059.39 build through their management console or software distribution tooling and verify the reported version, since stale pinned or deferred builds are the common failure mode for browser fixes of this type. Because no vendor workaround is documented, compensating controls carry trade-offs: keep the renderer sandbox and Site Isolation enabled (disabling them to improve compatibility would materially worsen exposure to this and any chained flaw), restrict or block browsing of untrusted HTML content and third-party media-heavy pages through a secure web gateway or proxy (reduces the attack surface but degrades user experience and can be bypassed by encrypted or embedded content), and treat any host running a pre-155.0.8059.39 Chrome build as potentially exposed until the update is confirmed applied - note that no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, so these measures are precautionary hardening rather than incident response. Chromium-derived browsers should be updated to whatever build their vendor ships that incorporates the corresponding Chromium 155 fix, and that version should be confirmed directly with the downstream vendor since it is not provided in this intelligence.

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 is a CWE-190 integer overflow in Chrome's Media stack, the HTML5 pipeline that parses containers and decodes audio/video before handing frames to Blink and the platform renderers. Media parsing involves attacker-influenced length, dimension, sample-count and buffer-size fields; when arithmetic on these values wraps, an undersized buffer can be allocated and subsequently over-written, producing classic heap memory corruption. Because the description explicitly says code execution outside the sandbox, the corrupted object is presumed to live in a process with broader privileges than the renderer (media/GPU/utility-style broker code), giving an attacker who controls media input on a loaded page a route toward a sandbox escape rather than mere renderer compromise. The affected CPE, cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, matches every Chrome build below the fixed release across supported desktop and mobile platforms, since the shared Blink/Media code is cross-platform. Scope-change (S:C) is what pushes the base score to 9.6: exploitation of the vulnerable Media component would affect resources beyond its own security authority (the browser process and host OS), which is consistent with a sandbox-escape primitive but does not by itself demonstrate that the escape is dependable.

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Severity by source

Sources disagree (Low–Critical)
Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY 9.6 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 9.6 CRITICAL

Remotely reachable via a web page with no auth (AV:N/PR:N) but requiring the victim to load it (UI:R); sandbox escape crosses a trust boundary (S:C) enabling full code execution (C/I/A:H).

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

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
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Oct 06, 2026 - 21:22 NVD
9.6 (CRITICAL)
Patch available
Oct 06, 2026 - 20:04 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 06, 2026 - 18:41 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.6
CVE Published
Oct 06, 2026 - 18:41 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

Integer overflow in Media in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Google Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39 contain a critical memory corruption flaw in the Media component that could let a remote attacker execute code outside the browser sandbox if a user visits a specially crafted page. Although no public exploit or active exploitation has been identified, the widespread use of Chrome across the organization means unpatched endpoints remain a potential entry point for compromise. Leadership should prioritize rapid patching to reduce exposure, especially for users who browse untrusted web content.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 79% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
Google Chrome is among the most widely deployed browsers worldwide
Data Quality
6 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 CRITICAL
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
CRITICAL severity
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
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

48
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +48
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Integer overflow occurs when an arithmetic operation produces a result that exceeds the maximum value a given integer type can store.

Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.

Vendor StatusVendor

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