Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to crafted web page
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ExploitRender spoofed WebOTP UI elements
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ExecutionDeceive user into trusting fake prompt
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ImpactCapture OTP or induce fraudulent action
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security UI security representation
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to navigate to an attacker-controlled crafted HTML page running in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 and to interact with the spoofed WebOTP interface (CVSS UI:R). No authentication or prior privileges are needed (PR:N), and default configurations are affected since WebOTP is a standard browser API. The key limiting factors are the mandatory user interaction and social-engineering dependency - the attack only succeeds if the user is actually deceived by the spoofed UI - and the fact that an up-to-date Chrome (>=155.0.8059.39) is not vulnerable, so Chrome's automatic update mechanism rapidly shrinks the exposed population. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-to-moderate priority issue despite its network attack vector. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L, base 5.4) describes a remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity attack, but it is gated by UI:R - the victim must actively visit and interact with an attacker-controlled page - and Chromium itself rated this only Medium severity, consistent with a UI-spoofing (CWE-451) class flaw rather than memory corruption or code execution. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public POC is present in the provided data, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation; the finding was reported internally by Google's own Chrome team rather than discovered via in-the-wild attacks. The C:L and A:L impact ratings are somewhat generous for what is fundamentally a UI misrepresentation/spoofing bug - the realistic harm is user deception (e.g., tricking a user about a WebOTP prompt) rather than direct data theft or crash, so I:N is appropriate but the C:L/A:L values should be read as deception-enabled rather than direct technical impact. Net: a real but low-urgency bug best handled through normal Chrome auto-update cycles, not emergency patching. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a crafted HTML page and lures a Chrome user to it via phishing link or malicious ad. The page manipulates the WebOTP interface to spoof trusted UI elements, deceiving the victim into believing a one-time-passcode prompt or origin indicator is legitimate, potentially leading them to disclose an OTP or trust a fraudulent request. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and the attack requires the user to visit the page (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026
UI misrepresentation in the WebOTP API of Google Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39 lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker deceive users with spoofed interface elements rendered from a crafted HTML page. The victim must navigate to the attacker-controlled page and interact with the spoofed WebOTP prompt (CVSS UI:R), so successful abuse depends on social engineering rather than any authentication or elevated privilege. Impact is bounded and low: the independent assessment rates confidentiality loss only (C:L) with no integrity or availability effect, and no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Google Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later - Google has released a vendor patch for this issue, and the fix is delivered through the normal Stable channel update described at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html; because Chrome auto-updates by default, confirming the installed version via chrome://version and forcing a relaunch/restart of the browser is the fastest way to close exposure. No standalone workaround fully removes the misrepresentation behavior, but as a compensating control administrators can disable the WebOTP/one-time-code autofill surface through the relevant enterprise policy (e.g. disallowing the SMS one-time-code autofill feature in Chrome Enterprise policies), accepting the trade-off that users lose convenient SMS code autofill and may type codes manually; alternatively, restricting users to a managed allowlist of trusted sites and reinforcing anti-phishing training reduces the social-engineering prerequisite, at the cost of reduced browsing flexibility. There is no indication that network-level blocking is viable here, since the attack is delivered as ordinary web content to the browser, so patching remains the primary and recommended action.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
WebOTP is a browser API built on the SMS Receiver / Web OTP specification that allows web origins to programmatically retrieve one-time codes delivered by SMS, historically implemented on top of the Credential Management API and the Origin-Bound one-time-code autofill flow. The root cause class is CWE-451 (User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information): the browser renders an interface element - the WebOTP autofill/one-time-code prompt - in a way that misrepresents its origin or context, so a crafted HTML page can present UI that appears to belong to a trusted site or system surface. Because the flaw lives in the rendering and trust-signalling layer rather than in memory handling or script execution, the affected component is the Chrome browser itself (CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, all builds before 155.0.8059.39) on every supported platform, and exploitation is confined to the browser's default WebOTP-enabled configuration rather than requiring any special flags, extensions, or elevated process. Chromium assigned this a Medium security severity, consistent with a spoofing/phishing-style origin-validation weakness rather than remote code execution.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Network-reachable crafted page (AV:N, AC:L) needing no privileges but requiring the victim to visit and be deceived (UI:R); as a UI-spoofing flaw the only realistic impact is limited deception-based confidentiality (C:L), with no integrity or availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
UI misrepresentation in WebOTP in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to spoof UI elements via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
EUVD-2026-93716
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