CVE-2026-79046: Race condition in Google Chrome
Description
A race condition vulnerability exists in the Permissions component of Google Chrome on Android versions prior to 152.0.7977.65. This flaw allows a remote attacker to bypass the web origin policy by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. The issue has a medium severity rating and requires user interaction for exploitation.
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.3medium
Affected software
Chrome
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Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-79046 is a race condition vulnerability in the Permissions system of Google Chrome on Android platforms before version 152.0.7977.65. The flaw enables a remote attacker, through social engineering, to bypass the web origin policy by delivering a specially crafted HTML page. This vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3, indicating medium severity. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed and patched by Google in the stable release 152.0.7977.65.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the web origin policy, potentially enabling unauthorized access to web resources or data that should be isolated by origin. However, the impact is limited to confidentiality loss only, with no integrity or availability impact. Exploitation requires user interaction via social engineering.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fixed version of Google Chrome for Android is available at version 152.0.7977.65. Users and administrators should update to this version or later to remediate this vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Chrome
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-25T06:08:13.355Z
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0256176589.html","vendor":"Google"}]
Threat ID: 6a8df9c8acd9273b49ac6f7f
Added to database: 08/25/2026, 20:23:36 UTC
Last enriched: 09/10/2026, 15:50:32 UTC
Last updated: 10/08/2026, 06:48:19 UTC
Views: 32
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