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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DeliveryPage invokes FedCM identity API
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ExploitBypass missing authorization check
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ExecutionViolate web origin policy cross-origin
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ImpactAccess or spoof federated identity data
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 victim to use an affected Google Chrome build (any version prior to 155.0.8059.39) and to actively visit an attacker-controlled crafted HTML page (UI:R - user interaction is the primary limiting factor). The flaw resides specifically in FedCM (the Federated Credential Management API), so meaningful impact depends on the presence and use of federated identity / sign-in flows that FedCM mediates; environments or sessions not exercising federated login have reduced practical exposure. No authentication or elevated privileges are required (PR:N), and default configurations are affected since FedCM is a built-in browser feature, but the requirement for user navigation to a malicious page meaningfully limits mass or drive-by-at-scale exploitation (SSVC Automatable=no). |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity, moderate-priority issue that does not warrant emergency patching but should be addressed through normal Chrome auto-update cycles. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N, 6.5) indicates a network-reachable flaw requiring low complexity and no privileges but mandating user interaction (the victim must visit a crafted HTML page), with impact limited to integrity (I:H) and no confidentiality or availability effect. All exploitation and risk signals agree that real-world risk is low-to-moderate: EPSS is 0.19% (8th percentile), CISA SSVC scores Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, and Technical Impact=partial, and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. No conflicting signals are present - the CVSS vector, Chromium's own 'Medium' severity rating, low EPSS, and SSVC all converge on a non-urgent profile. The one caveat is the integrity-only I:H rating, which reflects the web origin / same-origin policy bypass in FedCM (federated identity) rather than direct code execution; the practical consequence (cross-origin identity/credential disclosure or spoofing) depends on FedCM relying-party deployments and is not fully detailed in the available data. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a crafted HTML page and lures a Chrome user (prior to 155.0.8059.39) to visit it. The page abuses the missing authorization check in FedCM to bypass the web origin policy, allowing the attacker's origin to interact with federated identity flows it should not be permitted to access. No public proof-of-concept exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires the victim to actively load the malicious page. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 09, 2026
Missing authorization checks in Google Chrome's Federated Credential Management (FedCM) API allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass web origin policy by luring a victim to a crafted HTML page, with the primary impact being integrity (C:N/I:H/A:N) rather than confidentiality or availability. All Chrome builds prior to 155.0.8059.39 are affected, and exploitation requires the user to navigate to attacker-controlled content (UI:R), which is why CISA's SSVC framework rates the issue as not automatable and not currently exploited. There is no public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing, and the EPSS score is very low at 0.19% (8th percentile), so this is a medium-severity, moderate-priority issue best handled through routine Chrome auto-update cycles rather than emergency patching.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Google Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later, which is the fixed build documented in the Chrome stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html. The most reliable path is to let Chrome's built-in auto-update complete and then fully restart the browser, since the patched code only takes effect after all running browser processes are restarted; fleet administrators using managed Chrome or enterprise packaging should push 155.0.8059.39 through their software distribution tooling and verify the running build via chrome://version. If immediate updating is not feasible, the practical compensating control is to disable or restrict federated sign-in flows that depend on FedCM - for managed browsers via the relevant FedCM enterprise policy - accepting the trade-off that users lose federated single sign-on convenience; alternatively, restricting general user browsing to trusted sites reduces the chance of reaching a crafted HTML page, at the cost of significant usability impact. No vendor workaround beyond patching is documented in the available references, and no public exploit code is known, so urgent out-of-band mitigation is not required by CISA KEV or SSVC signals.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) describes a root-cause class in which a component performs an action without verifying that the caller is entitled to perform it. Here the affected component is FedCM, the browser-native Federated Credential Management API that mediates federated login flows between relying-party websites, identity providers, and the user, replacing older mechanisms such as third-party cookies and hidden iframes. Because FedCM acts as the browser's trusted intermediary for cross-origin identity assertions, an authorization gap within it can let a malicious page that the victim visits induce behavior that violates the same-origin policy - the browser fails to enforce the origin boundary it is supposed to guarantee for that API surface. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N indicates the flaw is network-reachable, does not require authentication or privileges, needs user interaction (the crafted HTML page must be opened), and yields high integrity impact within the browser's security scope with no direct confidentiality or availability loss. Chromium's own severity rating for this issue is Medium, and the affected product record maps to cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, i.e., Chrome releases preceding 155.0.8059.39.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Remote crafted page with no privileges but required user interaction (UI:R); a missing-authorization origin-policy bypass yields integrity impact (I:H) with no confidentiality or availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Missing authorization in FedCM in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to bypass web origin policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-93730
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