Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCompromise renderer process via separate bug
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DeliveryServe crafted HTML page to victim
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ExploitTrigger compositing input-validation flaw
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ExecutionRender spoofed URL in address bar
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ImpactDeceive user for phishing/trust abuse
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that the attacker has ALREADY compromised Chrome's renderer process (per the description, 'a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process') - this is a secondary, post-exploitation primitive, not a standalone remote vulnerability. The attacker must then deliver a crafted HTML page and the victim must view/interact with it (CVSS UI:R). Exploitation targets the Compositing component on Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39. Limiting factors: high attack complexity (AC:H), mandatory user interaction, the prerequisite of a working renderer-compromise exploit chain, and impact bounded to address-bar spoofing (no direct code execution or data exfiltration from this flaw alone). These conditions make realistic standalone exploitation improbable. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue despite being network-reachable. The CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.2 (Medium) aligns with Chromium's own 'Medium' severity rating, and the vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L) reflects meaningful barriers: high attack complexity and required user interaction. The single most important risk-limiting signal is in the description, not the CVSS vector: exploitation requires 'a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process' - i.e. this is a post-exploitation sandbox/UI primitive, not a standalone entry point. The CVSS vector encodes PR:N, which conflicts with the description's precondition of a pre-compromised renderer; this is standard Chromium scoring practice (the renderer compromise is treated as an attack precondition rather than a privilege), but defenders should read PR:N here as 'no additional privilege beyond an already-compromised renderer,' NOT as trivially unauthenticated. No EPSS score was provided in the input, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified. The CVE is NOT listed in CISA KEV and no proof-of-concept is referenced, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. No SSVC decision data was supplied. Net: a low-impact (address-bar spoof only) secondary vulnerability requiring an already-compromised renderer plus user interaction - real but low real-world risk, appropriately patched in a routine stable-channel update. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has already achieved code execution inside Chrome's renderer process (e.g. via a separate RCE bug) lures the user to a crafted HTML page that abuses the compositing input-validation flaw to render a misleading URL in the address bar. The user, trusting the spoofed address bar, is more readily phished for credentials or deceived about the true origin of content. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and the high attack complexity plus required renderer pre-compromise make opportunistic use unlikely. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 07, 2026
Address bar spoofing in Google Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39 lets an attacker who has ALREADY compromised the browser's renderer process display a falsified URL in the address bar via a crafted HTML page, so that a victim who views or interacts with that page is misled about which site they are visiting. This is a secondary, post-exploitation primitive rather than a standalone remote vulnerability: it requires a working renderer-compromise chain plus user interaction (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 4.2), and the impact is bounded to UI/URL spoofing with no direct code execution or data exfiltration from this flaw alone. There is no confirmed active exploitation (not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit code identified at time of analysis; EPSS/KEV signals are absent, and the upstream Chromium severity is Medium.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Google Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later via the stable channel release (see https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html); because Chrome's update mechanism typically installs silently, confirm the running version through chrome://version and force a restart of the browser so the patched binary is actually loaded. No pre-patch mitigation fully closes the issue, since the root cause is in trusted-UI compositing rather than in a configurable feature: keep Site Isolation enabled and avoid disabling it for convenience (disabling it lowers the cost of the prerequisite renderer compromise, which is the real gating factor here), restrict or block untrusted HTML rendering in high-assurance workflows (for example, disable JavaScript for unknown origins or route browsing through a hardened/isolated profile - trade-off: broken site functionality and reduced usability), and ensure endpoint detection is tuned for renderer-exploit chains rather than for this spoofing primitive alone, since patching this CVE removes only the post-compromise spoofing capability and not the underlying renderer-compromise vector. Chromium downstream consumers should merge the corresponding upstream fix cited in https://issues.chromium.org/issues/520573237, noting that this tracker entry is access-restricted and that the released patched version is the stable 155.0.8059.39 build. Given the low assessed severity, prioritize this update within normal patch cadence rather than as an emergency action.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is an improper input validation issue (CWE-20) in Chrome's Compositing component - the layer that composites rendered layers into the final browser frame, including the browser chrome that draws the address bar and other trusted UI. Because Chrome relies on the renderer process being untrusted and on the browser-process UI (omnibox, security indicators) remaining authoritative, insufficient validation of compositing input allows crafted HTML to influence what is painted in the trusted browser UI, producing a spoofed address bar. Exploitation presupposes that the attacker has already broken renderer isolation (i.e., a separate renderer-compromise bug or chain), which is why the assessed attack complexity is High and why the flaw is best characterized as a post-compromise UI-spoofing primitive; it does not by itself cross the sandbox boundary or yield code execution. Note an analytical discrepancy between the NVD-style vector supplied in the intelligence feed (C:L/I:N/A:L) and the independent assessment (C:N/I:L/A:N): the latter treats the effect as an integrity/spoofing impact with no confidentiality or availability consequence, and this analysis follows the assessed vector. Affected component coverage is captured by the CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* for all Chrome builds below the fixed release, with the EUVD entry (EUVD-2026-93743) likewise recording versions <155.0.8059.39.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Network-delivered crafted page (AV:N) needing user interaction (UI:R) and a hard precondition of renderer compromise (AC:H); impact is address-bar spoofing, a low integrity/deception effect (I:L), with no real confidentiality or availability loss.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Improper input validation in Compositing in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to spoof address bar via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
Threat Intelligence Overview
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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-2026-93743
GHSA-f346-fc55-c6fx
NVD
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