Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure iOS Chrome user to crafted HTML page
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ExploitTrigger address bar misrepresentation in browser UI
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ExecutionDisplay trusted domain over attacker content
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ImpactHarvest credentials or data via phishing
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 a victim running Google Chrome for iOS at a version prior to 155.0.8059.39 to actively open an attacker-crafted HTML page (UI:R) after being socially engineered into doing so - the flaw cannot be triggered without this victim action. No authentication is required (PR:N), and default configurations are affected, but the dependence on social engineering and the absence of automation (SSVC Automatable=no) significantly limit realistic, large-scale exploitation. The impact is deceptive address-bar spoofing enabling phishing, not direct system compromise. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-to-moderate real-world risk despite the MEDIUM rating. Multiple signals agree: the CVSS vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L, score 5.4) reflects a network-reachable but user-interaction-dependent flaw with only low confidentiality/availability impact and no integrity impact, consistent with a UI-spoofing (CWE-451) weakness rather than code execution. CISA's SSVC framework corroborates low priority: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS was not provided in the input, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified. The attack requires social engineering plus active victim interaction, so even though the attack vector is network (AV:N), real exploitation is targeted and manual rather than scalable. One caveat: the vendor-supplied vector includes A:L (low availability impact), which is a questionable fit for an address-bar spoof - this appears to be Chrome's conservative default scoring rather than a true availability effect. Net: a real but modest issue best handled through routine patching, not emergency response. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker crafts a malicious HTML page and uses social engineering (e.g., a phishing link) to lure a Google Chrome for iOS user into opening it. The page manipulates the browser so the address bar displays a trusted/legitimate domain while attacker-controlled content is shown, tricking the victim into trusting a fraudulent page. No public exploit code or active exploitation is known; exploitation depends on user interaction (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026
Address bar spoofing in Google Chrome for iOS before 155.0.8059.39 lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker make a crafted HTML page appear to originate from a trusted site, enabling phishing and possible disclosure of information the victim enters. Exploitation requires the victim to be socially engineered into opening the page (CVSS 5.4, medium; assessed impact limited to confidentiality, with no integrity or availability effect), and CISA's SSVC assessment records exploitation as none and automation as no, so large-scale automated abuse is unlikely. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor has shipped a fix in Chrome 155.0.8059.39.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome for iOS to 155.0.8059.39 or later from the App Store, per the stable channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html and the tracking issue at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/518039724. On iOS there is no in-browser self-update path, so updates arrive only through the App Store; administrators of managed fleets should use MDM/App Store volume-purchase tooling to enforce a minimum app version and confirm devices report 155.0.8059.39 or later. Where immediate upgrade is not possible, the practical mitigations are behavioral and organizational rather than technical, and each carries trade-offs: treat the iOS Chrome address bar and lock indicator as unreliable when following links from email, SMS, or social media, since the spoof is triggered by opening attacker-crafted content (side effect: no protection once a user has already loaded the page); direct users to open sensitive logins (banking, corporate SSO, password managers) from saved bookmarks or dedicated native apps instead of links, which reduces exposure but is not enforceable technically; and require phishing-resistant authentication (passkeys or hardware security keys) for corporate services so a spoofed origin cannot harvest reusable credentials, though this depends on backend support and user enrollment. Blocking or filtering untrusted links at the mail gateway or DNS layer lowers the chance a victim reaches the crafted page, at the cost of possible false positives and no protection against links delivered out of band.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-451, UI misrepresentation of critical information: the browser chrome - specifically the address bar / origin indicator in the mobile Chrome for iOS interface - fails to faithfully represent the true origin of the displayed content when a crafted HTML page is loaded, so a user can be shown a deceptive URL or security state. Because this is a presentation-layer defect rather than a memory-safety bug, there is no sandbox escape or code execution component; the attacker's payoff is deceiving the user into trusting attacker-controlled content (for example, a look-alike login page). Chrome on iOS is built on Apple's WebKit rendering stack, and the affected CPE, cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, is version-agnostic and covers the Chrome product family broadly; the EUVD record scopes the actionable affected range to Chrome on iOS builds prior to 155.0.8059.39. This combination - a purely deceptive-UI class of bug, dependent on a user's navigation decision - is consistent with the SSVC rating of partial technical impact and non-automatable exploitation, and with the assessed CVSS vector of AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Network-delivered crafted page needs victim interaction (UI:R) but no privileges (PR:N); address-bar spoofing aids phishing giving low confidentiality impact, with no genuine integrity or availability effect on the browser.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
UI misrepresentation in Mobile in Google Chrome on on iOS prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to spoof address bar via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
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Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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