CVE-2026-106265: UI misrepresentation in Google Chrome
Description
A UI misrepresentation vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 155.0.8059.39 allows a remote attacker to spoof UI elements via a crafted HTML page, potentially tricking users through social engineering. The issue has a medium severity rating and affects versions before 155.0.8059.39.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.4medium
Affected software
Chrome
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-106265 is a vulnerability in Google Chrome's File component that allows remote attackers to spoof UI elements by crafting malicious HTML pages. This UI misrepresentation can be leveraged through social engineering to deceive users. The vulnerability affects Chrome versions prior to 155.0.8059.39 and has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.4, indicating medium severity.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability enables remote attackers to misrepresent UI elements, which may lead to user deception via social engineering. The impact is limited to confidentiality and availability with low confidentiality impact and low availability impact, and no integrity impact. There is no indication of active exploitation in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Google Chrome version 155.0.8059.39. Users and administrators should update to this version or later to remediate the vulnerability. Refer to the official Google Chrome stable channel update advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html for detailed patch information.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Chrome
- Date Reserved
- 2026-10-06T16:33:56.181Z
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html","vendor":"Google"}]
Threat ID: 6ac546432cdf04f656d49d83
Added to database: 10/06/2026, 19:04:35 UTC
Last enriched: 10/06/2026, 22:04:01 UTC
Last updated: 10/06/2026, 22:04:01 UTC
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