Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCompromise Chrome renderer process
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DeliveryServe crafted HTML page
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ExploitTrigger missing authorization in Media
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ExecutionRead restricted sensitive data
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ImpactExfiltrate information to attacker
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation 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 attacker to have ALREADY compromised Chrome's renderer process - this is a prior-foothold prerequisite, not initial access, and is the single most important limiting factor. Additionally, the attack targets the Media component and requires the renderer to process attacker-crafted HTML content (UI:R / page visit), and it is restricted to Chrome builds on Windows prior to 155.0.8059.39. The high attack complexity (AC:H) reflects the chained, non-trivial setup. Realistic risk is therefore confined to scenarios where a separate renderer-exploit already exists; this flaw alone cannot be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker against a default, un-compromised browser. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue despite the 5.3 (Medium) CVSS base score, and the signals are internally consistent on that point. The defining factor is the exploitation precondition: per the description, the attacker must ALREADY have compromised the renderer process before this flaw can be leveraged - it is a post-exploitation sandbox-boundary information leak (CWE-862, missing authorization in the Media component), not an initial-access vulnerability. This is reflected in CVSS AC:H and UI:R, and Chromium itself rated the security severity 'Low'. CISA's SSVC framework agrees strongly: Exploitation=none (no observed activity), Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial - none of which argue for urgency. No EPSS score was provided in the input, and there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code referenced, so there is no evidence of active or imminent exploitation. One signal worth flagging as internally conflicting: the input CVSS sets C:H (high confidentiality impact), which sits awkwardly against both the vendor's 'Low' rating and SSVC's 'partial' technical impact - treat the C:H as likely overstated and verify the actual scope of leaked data with Google before prioritizing. Net: real but low priority; patch in normal cadence rather than emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker first gains code execution inside Chrome's sandboxed renderer process (for example by chaining a separate renderer RCE bug), then lures or directs the compromised renderer to process a crafted HTML page that abuses the missing authorization check in the Media component to read sensitive information it should not have access to across a security boundary. No public exploit code or active exploitation is identified at time of analysis, and the high attack complexity plus the renderer-compromise prerequisite make opportunistic mass exploitation unlikely. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026
Information disclosure in Google Chrome's Media component on Windows affects builds prior to 155.0.8059.39, where missing authorization checks allow a crafted HTML page to expose sensitive data - but only if the attacker has already compromised Chrome's renderer process. That prior-foothold prerequisite is the dominant limiting factor: this defect cannot be triggered against a clean, default browser by a remote attacker, which is why CISA's SSVC assessment records no exploitation and no automability, and why the issue is treated as low priority despite the 5.3 Medium base score. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and a vendor-released fix is available in Chrome 155.0.8059.39.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Chrome 155.0.8059.39 (Windows stable channel). Update through Chrome's built-in auto-update mechanism or by downloading the fixed build from the official Chrome release channel, then fully restart the browser - Chromium updates are not applied to already-running processes. The fixing release and full list of bundled fixes are documented in the vendor advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html, with the specific defect tracked at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/559777100. Because the vulnerability requires that the renderer be compromised first, organizations that cannot immediately patch can treat strong renderer hardening as a compensating control with real trade-offs: keep site isolation enabled and do not add the --disable-site-isolation-trials flag, since that deliberately weakens the boundary this flaw depends on; consider disabling or restricting risky media-related web features via enterprise policy, accepting that this breaks legitimate video/audio functionality; and reduce the likelihood of the required prior renderer compromise by enforcing prompt patching for known renderer exploits, since this CVE alone is not remotely exploitable against a clean browser. There is no evidence that blocking ports or restricting network access is relevant, as the trigger is a crafted HTML page visited by the user.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a missing authorization weakness (CWE-862) in Chrome's Media component - the code path that parses, decodes and exposes audio/video resources and metadata to page content. Chromium's security model assumes the renderer is untrusted and enforces origin and privilege boundaries through site isolation and the sandbox, so a missing authorization check inside Media handling means a renderer that has already been subverted by a separate exploit can read data it should not be permitted to reach. The published CVSS:3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, i.e. network-reachable, high attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction needed, and confidentiality-only impact. Our independent assessment revises the confidentiality component to Low (C:L), reflecting that the disclosure is gated behind an already-compromised renderer and yields limited, component-scoped data rather than broad secret exfiltration; the NVD score of 5.3 should therefore be read as an upper bound. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* is version-agnostic and carries no platform qualifier, so the Windows-only scope stated in the description and by ENISA (EUVD-2026-93653) must be taken from those sources rather than the CPE string; tags referencing an authentication bypass describe the CWE class, not a pre-auth bypass of the browser. Media Component is not memory-unsafe parsing in this case - there is no memory corruption, RCE, or sandbox escape claimed, only unauthorized read of sensitive information.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
AC:H and UI:R because a pre-compromised renderer must process a crafted page; PR:N since no victim account privileges are needed; C:L (not C:H) to reflect vendor 'Low' and SSVC partial impact; I/A:N as only disclosure occurs.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Missing authorization in Media in Google Chrome on on Windows 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: Low)
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EUVD-2026-93653
GHSA-p6h3-7j26-26g4
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