CVE-2026-17911: Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome
CVE-2026-17911 is a medium severity vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 151.0.7922.72. It involves insufficient policy enforcement in SVG handling that allows a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability does not impact integrity or availability and requires user interaction to exploit.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's SVG implementation allows a remote attacker to bypass cross-origin data restrictions due to insufficient policy enforcement. Specifically, crafted HTML content can cause leakage of cross-origin data. The issue affects Chrome versions before 151.0.7922.72. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.3, reflecting low complexity and no privileges required but requiring user interaction. There is no explicit vendor advisory stating patch availability or remediation level, but the affected version indicates that 151.0.7922.72 is the fixed version.
Potential Impact
The impact is limited to confidentiality loss through cross-origin data leakage. There is no impact on data integrity or system availability. Exploitation requires user interaction and a crafted HTML page. No known exploits are reported in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
Users and administrators should update Google Chrome to version 151.0.7922.72 or later to remediate this vulnerability. Patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the vendor advisory, but the affected version suggests the fix is included in 151.0.7922.72. No additional mitigation steps are indicated.
CVE-2026-17911: Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome
Description
CVE-2026-17911 is a medium severity vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 151.0.7922.72. It involves insufficient policy enforcement in SVG handling that allows a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability does not impact integrity or availability and requires user interaction to exploit.
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.3medium
Affected software
Chrome
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Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's SVG implementation allows a remote attacker to bypass cross-origin data restrictions due to insufficient policy enforcement. Specifically, crafted HTML content can cause leakage of cross-origin data. The issue affects Chrome versions before 151.0.7922.72. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.3, reflecting low complexity and no privileges required but requiring user interaction. There is no explicit vendor advisory stating patch availability or remediation level, but the affected version indicates that 151.0.7922.72 is the fixed version.
Potential Impact
The impact is limited to confidentiality loss through cross-origin data leakage. There is no impact on data integrity or system availability. Exploitation requires user interaction and a crafted HTML page. No known exploits are reported in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
Users and administrators should update Google Chrome to version 151.0.7922.72 or later to remediate this vulnerability. Patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the vendor advisory, but the affected version suggests the fix is included in 151.0.7922.72. No additional mitigation steps are indicated.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Chrome
- Date Reserved
- 2026-07-27T23:36:58.693Z
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html","vendor":"Google"}]
Threat ID: 6a6aa0a49c2644c7f849b9d4
Added to database: 07/30/2026, 00:53:56 UTC
Last enriched: 08/06/2026, 17:30:00 UTC
Last updated: 09/12/2026, 22:01:31 UTC
Views: 49
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