CVE-2026-76019: Incorrect authorization in Google Chrome
CVE-2026-76019 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 151.0.7922.173 involving incorrect authorization in Workers. It allows a remote attacker who has compromised the renderer process and uses social engineering to bypass the web origin policy via a crafted HTML page.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's Workers component allows incorrect authorization checks that can be exploited by a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process. By leveraging social engineering and a crafted HTML page, the attacker can bypass the web origin policy, potentially leading to unauthorized access to web resources. The issue affects Chrome versions prior to 151.0.7922.173.
Potential Impact
The impact is a bypass of the web origin policy, which is a fundamental security control in browsers to isolate web content from different origins. This could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data or actions within the browser context if the renderer process is compromised and the attacker successfully tricks a user via social engineering.
Mitigation Recommendations
The vulnerability is fixed in Google Chrome version 151.0.7922.173. Users and administrators should update to this version or later to remediate the issue. The vendor advisory linked provides the official update information. No additional mitigations are specified.
CVE-2026-76019: Incorrect authorization in Google Chrome
Description
CVE-2026-76019 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome prior to version 151.0.7922.173 involving incorrect authorization in Workers. It allows a remote attacker who has compromised the renderer process and uses social engineering to bypass the web origin policy via a crafted HTML page.
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Technical Analysis
This vulnerability in Google Chrome's Workers component allows incorrect authorization checks that can be exploited by a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process. By leveraging social engineering and a crafted HTML page, the attacker can bypass the web origin policy, potentially leading to unauthorized access to web resources. The issue affects Chrome versions prior to 151.0.7922.173.
Potential Impact
The impact is a bypass of the web origin policy, which is a fundamental security control in browsers to isolate web content from different origins. This could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data or actions within the browser context if the renderer process is compromised and the attacker successfully tricks a user via social engineering.
Mitigation Recommendations
The vulnerability is fixed in Google Chrome version 151.0.7922.173. Users and administrators should update to this version or later to remediate the issue. The vendor advisory linked provides the official update information. No additional mitigations are specified.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Chrome
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-18T19:28:09.462Z
- Cvss Version
- null
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0404570826.html","vendor":"Google"}]
Threat ID: 6a876922acd9273b491d066f
Added to database: 08/20/2026, 20:52:50 UTC
Last enriched: 08/20/2026, 21:08:15 UTC
Last updated: 08/20/2026, 23:31:24 UTC
Views: 5
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