Information leak in Canvas in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2026-79193)
Description
A medium severity information leak vulnerability exists in the Canvas component of Google Chrome versions prior to 152.0.7977.65. This flaw allows a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data by crafting a malicious HTML page. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-79193 and is associated with CWE-200 (Information Exposure).
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.3medium
Affected software
Weaknesses
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Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-79193 is an information leak vulnerability in the Canvas implementation of Google Chrome before version 152.0.7977.65. It enables a remote attacker to leak data from other origins by using a specially crafted HTML page. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (medium severity), with an attack vector of network, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required, and impacts confidentiality only without affecting integrity or availability.
Potential Impact
An attacker can remotely cause a cross-origin information leak via the Canvas API, potentially exposing sensitive data from other origins to the attacker. The impact is limited to confidentiality loss; there is no impact on integrity or availability. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Google Chrome version 152.0.7977.65 and later. Users and administrators should update to this version or later to remediate the vulnerability. Since this is a client-side browser vulnerability, applying the official update is the recommended mitigation.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- GHSA-j5pf-qmg7-p639
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.4.0
- Aliases
- ["CVE-2026-79193"]
- Database Specific Severity
- MODERATE
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6a90542aacd9273b49698925
Added to database: 08/27/2026, 15:13:46 UTC
Last enriched: 09/10/2026, 05:39:06 UTC
Last updated: 10/10/2026, 06:48:19 UTC
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