CVE-2026-5276: Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome
CVE-2026-5276 is a medium severity vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 146. 0. 7680. 178 involving insufficient policy enforcement in the WebUSB feature. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially extract sensitive information from process memory by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability does not require privileges but does require user interaction. No known exploits are reported in the wild. A patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the provided data.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's WebUSB implementation results from insufficient enforcement of security policies, enabling a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a specially crafted HTML page. It affects Chrome versions before 146.0.7680.178. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 6.5, reflecting a network attack vector with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction needed, and a high confidentiality impact without integrity or availability impact.
Potential Impact
An attacker can remotely induce a user to visit a malicious web page that exploits the WebUSB policy enforcement weakness to access sensitive information from the browser's process memory. This could lead to information disclosure but does not affect integrity or availability. There are no known active exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not confirmed in the provided data; no official fix or vendor advisory is referenced. Users and administrators should monitor official Google Chrome security advisories for updates and apply the update to version 146.0.7680.178 or later once available. Until then, exercising caution with untrusted web content is advised.
CVE-2026-5276: Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome
Description
CVE-2026-5276 is a medium severity vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 146. 0. 7680. 178 involving insufficient policy enforcement in the WebUSB feature. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially extract sensitive information from process memory by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability does not require privileges but does require user interaction. No known exploits are reported in the wild. A patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the provided data.
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's WebUSB implementation results from insufficient enforcement of security policies, enabling a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a specially crafted HTML page. It affects Chrome versions before 146.0.7680.178. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 6.5, reflecting a network attack vector with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction needed, and a high confidentiality impact without integrity or availability impact.
Potential Impact
An attacker can remotely induce a user to visit a malicious web page that exploits the WebUSB policy enforcement weakness to access sensitive information from the browser's process memory. This could lead to information disclosure but does not affect integrity or availability. There are no known active exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not confirmed in the provided data; no official fix or vendor advisory is referenced. Users and administrators should monitor official Google Chrome security advisories for updates and apply the update to version 146.0.7680.178 or later once available. Until then, exercising caution with untrusted web content is advised.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Chrome
- Date Reserved
- 2026-03-31T20:07:11.738Z
- Cvss Version
- null
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 69cca4c0e6bfc5ba1d993055
Added to database: 4/1/2026, 4:53:20 AM
Last enriched: 4/8/2026, 10:44:47 AM
Last updated: 5/21/2026, 6:34:42 PM
Views: 42
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