CVE-2026-14041: Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome
Insufficient policy enforcement in Serial in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's Serial API arises from insufficient policy enforcement, enabling a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation through a specially crafted HTML page. It affects versions prior to 150.0.7871.47. The CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 reflects high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is categorized under CWE-602 (Insufficient Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime). Although a vendor advisory is provided, it does not explicitly state if a fix has been released or if mitigation steps are available.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the affected system, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the user environment. The high CVSS score indicates severe consequences if exploited.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0175352312.html for current remediation guidance. Until official fixes or mitigations are confirmed, users should exercise caution when interacting with untrusted web content, especially pages that may leverage the Serial API.
CVE-2026-14041: Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome
Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in Serial in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
CVSS v3.1
Score 8.8high
Affected software
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Weaknesses
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's Serial API arises from insufficient policy enforcement, enabling a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation through a specially crafted HTML page. It affects versions prior to 150.0.7871.47. The CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 reflects high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is categorized under CWE-602 (Insufficient Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime). Although a vendor advisory is provided, it does not explicitly state if a fix has been released or if mitigation steps are available.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the affected system, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the user environment. The high CVSS score indicates severe consequences if exploited.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0175352312.html for current remediation guidance. Until official fixes or mitigations are confirmed, users should exercise caution when interacting with untrusted web content, especially pages that may leverage the Serial API.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Chrome
- Date Reserved
- 2026-06-29T23:11:30.142Z
- Cvss Version
- null
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0175352312.html","vendor":"Google"}]
Threat ID: 6a444c2c27e9c7971985d28f
Added to database: 06/30/2026, 23:07:24 UTC
Last enriched: 07/08/2026, 12:00:29 UTC
Last updated: 08/13/2026, 00:41:09 UTC
Views: 76
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