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Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-79090

CVE-2026-79090

Google Chrome — Improper privilege management in Actor in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to…

EPSS 0.4%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
37
CVSS 9.8 (ADP)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 36.3.363 × 207.3No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

Improper privilege management in Actor in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to bypass system access restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Chrome152.0.7977.65 – < 152.0.7977.65152.0.7977.65CNA

Scores by source

CISA ADP9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refchromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0256176589.htmlrefissues.chromium.org/issues/517673944