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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-93682

| CVE-2026-106425 MEDIUM
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
2026-10-06 Chrome GHSA-hp53-7q6q-47g6
4.2
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 Chrome renderer process
  2. Delivery
    Serve crafted HTML page
  3. Exploit
    Social-engineer user interaction
  4. Execution
    Trigger BrowserTag authorization gap
  5. Persist
    Bypass site isolation
  6. Impact
    Access cross-site data

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
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 a chain of specific prerequisites, not a default-configuration remote hit: (1) the attacker must have already compromised a Chrome renderer process, (2) the victim must interact with an attacker-controlled crafted HTML page (UI:R), and (3) social engineering must be used to abuse the BrowserTag component and bypass site isolation. The vulnerable component is BrowserTag in Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39. Limiting factors: the high attack complexity (AC:H), the mandatory user interaction, and especially the pre-existing renderer compromise sharply narrow realistic exploitation to targeted multi-stage attacks; impact is confined to Low confidentiality and Low integrity with no availability effect, and scope is unchanged (S:U).

Impact

This is a low-priority, defense-in-depth issue rather than a front-line threat, and the signals are consistent in pointing that way. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 4.2 Medium) encodes high attack complexity and required user interaction, with only Low confidentiality and Low integrity impact and no availability impact. Critically, the description establishes a prerequisite the CVSS vector does not fully convey: the attacker must have ALREADY compromised the renderer process, so this is a site-isolation/sandbox-boundary weakening primitive used as one link in a chain, not a standalone remote-code bug. EPSS reinforces low real-world urgency at 0.19% (8th percentile). There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization. No SSVC decision data was provided in the input. The main nuance to flag: the vector shows PR:N (no privileges), but the description's 'compromised the renderer process' precondition is a substantial real-world barrier that PR:N understates - Chromium conventionally scores renderer-compromise chains this way, so defenders should read the practical bar as higher than the 4.2 score alone suggests.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who has already gained code execution in a Chrome renderer process (e.g., via a separate renderer exploit) lures the user into interacting with a crafted HTML page, using that social engineering plus the BrowserTag missing-authorization flaw to bypass site isolation and read or tamper with data belonging to another site/origin. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the high complexity plus the requirement of a pre-compromised renderer make this a chain component rather than an initial-access vector.

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 11, 2026

Site isolation bypass in Google Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39 allows an attacker who has already compromised a renderer process to abuse the BrowserTag component and cross site boundaries when the victim interacts with a crafted HTML page. The issue is a missing authorization check (CWE-862) rated CVSS 4.2 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) and Chromium security severity Medium; it is unauthenticated from the network perspective and requires user interaction plus social engineering, with impact limited to Low confidentiality and Low integrity and no availability effect. Risk signals are consistent and low: EPSS is 0.19% (8th percentile), no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code identified at time of analysis, making this a defense-in-depth concern rather than a front-line threat. A vendor patch is available in Chrome 155.0.8059.39.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: Chrome 155.0.8059.39, published in the stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html, with the underlying fix tracked at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/501790682; update to that build or later by allowing Chrome's built-in auto-update to complete, then relaunch the browser and confirm the version at chrome://version (enterprise fleets should force the update and restart through their management tooling, since Chrome does not apply the fix until all processes are restarted). No standalone workaround fully removes the missing authorization check, so compensating controls are limited and should be treated as interim only: because exploitation requires a pre-existing renderer compromise, hardening the renderer attack surface (keeping Site Isolation enabled and verified via chrome://process-internals, applying enterprise policies such as SitePerProcess, removing unneeded extensions, and blocking untrusted downloads/HTML content at the network gateway) raises the cost of reaching the vulnerable state, at the cost of possible breakage of legacy or extension-dependent workflows and, in the case of strict process-per-site isolation, higher memory usage. Disabling JavaScript or JIT wholesale is not a practical mitigation for most users and would substantially impair functionality. Because the chain also depends on victim interaction with a crafted HTML page, user awareness and filtering of suspicious links provide marginal risk reduction, and the absence of a public exploit or KEV listing means prioritization can follow normal severity-based patching rather than emergency response.

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 vulnerable component is BrowserTag, a Chrome browser-process UI element that renders tab-level tags/labels; CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) indicates that the component fails to verify that the caller is entitled to perform the action it exposes, so an entity with lower privilege (a renderer) can reach functionality reserved for a more privileged context. Chrome's Site Isolation architecture deliberately places cross-origin content in separate renderer processes and keeps privileged browser-process interfaces behind strict checks; a missing authorization check on a browser-side interface such as BrowserTag can therefore weaken that boundary. The attack chain is explicitly multi-stage: the attacker must first already control a renderer process (which is itself a prior compromise, e.g. via a separate renderer bug), then convince the victim to load an attacker-crafted HTML page and interact with it (UI:R) to trigger the browser-process path. The assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, together with AC:H and unchanged scope (S:U), reflects that the missing check alone does not yield a default-configuration remote compromise - it is a privilege/site boundary weakness that must be chained. Affected product data is captured as CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (all Chrome versions below the fixed release), with the upstream issue tracked as Chromium bug 501790682.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY 4.2 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.2 MEDIUM

AC:H and UI:R reflect the required renderer-compromise chain and social engineering; PR:N follows Chromium's convention of scoring from the compromised-renderer position; C/I Low, A none per the isolation-bypass impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/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
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Oct 11, 2026 - 17:22 NVD
4.2 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Oct 06, 2026 - 20:04 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 06, 2026 - 18:41 cve.org
MEDIUM 4.2
CVE Published
Oct 06, 2026 - 18:41 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

Missing authorization in BrowserTag in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process and leveraged social engineering to bypass site isolation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 92% exploitable
Prevalence
Ubiquitous
Google Chrome is the dominant browser across consumer and enterprise endpoints
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

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· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

21
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +21
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.

Vendor StatusVendor

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