Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to crafted HTML page
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ExploitPage triggers address-bar spoofing logic
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ExecutionChrome displays falsified trusted URL
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ImpactUser trusts spoofed origin and submits credentials/data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
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 control a web page and have the victim navigate to it (UI:R) - there is no authentication requirement (PR:N) and no special Chrome configuration is named in the description, so default installs of Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 are affected. The key limiting factors are: (1) the victim must actively visit the attacker's crafted HTML page, and (2) the impact is limited to spoofing the address bar - it does not by itself grant code execution or data access, so damage depends on the user being deceived into a subsequent action (e.g., entering credentials). Patched by updating to Chrome 155.0.8059.39 or later. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.4) address-bar spoofing issue in Google Chrome stemming from incorrect authorization (CWE-863). The provided CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated attack that nonetheless requires user interaction - the victim must open an attacker-controlled HTML page. No EPSS score was supplied, the CVE is NOT on the CISA KEV list, and no public proof-of-concept is referenced, so there is no evidence of active or imminent widespread exploitation. The real-world priority is moderate rather than urgent: the signals are internally consistent (a spoofing/UI-deception flaw that aids phishing but yields no direct code execution or data theft), but the absence of EPSS data means statistical exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified. Note a scoring inconsistency to verify with the vendor: Google's input vector assigns C:L and A:L, yet an address-bar spoof's primary effect is misrepresentation of displayed content (an integrity concern), with no obvious confidentiality or availability impact - treat the exact impact metrics as vendor-assigned rather than independently confirmed. Given Chrome's enormous install base, even a medium spoofing bug is worth patching promptly as a phishing enabler, but it is not a high-priority RCE-class emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a crafted HTML page and lures a victim to visit it (e.g., via a phishing link or malicious ad). The page manipulates Chrome's address bar so the displayed URL appears to belong to a trusted site, increasing the credibility of a follow-on phishing or credential-harvesting page. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and successful deception depends on the user visiting the page and trusting the spoofed bar. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 07, 2026
Address-bar spoofing in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 lets remote attackers misrepresent the page a victim is actually viewing, undermining the primary trust signal users rely on to confirm site identity. Exploitation requires the victim to navigate to an attacker-controlled crafted HTML page (UI:R, PR:N - no authentication needed), and the assessed impact is integrity-only: the deception itself does not grant code execution or direct data access, but it can be leveraged to trick users into submitting credentials or other sensitive information to a site they believe is legitimate. Google has released a fix in Chrome 155.0.8059.39; at time of analysis there is no confirmed active exploitation (not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit code identified, and Chromium rates the underlying issue as Medium severity.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to Google Chrome 155.0.8059.39 or later from the stable channel and fully restart the browser so the new binary is loaded - this is the vendor-released patch and the only complete fix. In managed fleets, enforce the update through Chrome Browser Cloud Management or the relevant platform policy (e.g. auto-update enforcement / minimum version policy) and verify the reported version, since the update is delivered silently and users may continue running a stale in-memory build until relaunch. Because the defect is an address-bar spoofing issue rather than a code-execution bug, there is no meaningful server-side or configuration workaround that removes the risk; blocking content or disabling features is not a viable compensating control. Until the update is applied, the practical mitigations are user-behavioral and only partial: train users to verify the site through independent means (bookmarks, externally obtained URLs, certificate details) before entering credentials on any page reached by an unsolicited link, and treat unexpected credential or MFA prompts as suspect. For Chromium-derived browsers, track the upstream Chromium commit and confirm whether the downstream vendor has shipped an equivalent fix; there is no separate patch listed for those products in the provided references. Full details and the fixed build number are in the Chrome release advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is classified as CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) in the browser's UI layer. In Chromium's multi-process architecture, page content is rendered in a sandboxed renderer while the address bar / omnibox is drawn by the privileged browser process from the origin state it believes has been committed for the active tab. This flaw indicates that the authorization checks governing what URL or origin the UI is permitted to display for a given document state were insufficient, allowing a crafted HTML page to induce a mismatch between the displayed address bar and the real document origin. The affected artifact is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, i.e. all Google Chrome builds below 155.0.8059.39 across supported desktop platforms; because the defect sits in shared Chromium UI/omnibox code, downstream Chromium-based browsers that have not yet absorbed the upstream fix may share the same exposure. The accompanying tags (Authentication Bypass) reflect that the spoofed origin can be used to defeat origin-based user trust decisions rather than to bypass an authentication mechanism programmatically.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Remote crafted page with no auth but requires visiting it (UI:R); address-bar spoofing falsifies displayed content so I:L, with no real confidentiality or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Incorrect authorization in Browser in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to spoof address bar via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-93712
GHSA-c329-r8pp-j9rg
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