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critical 9.1

CVE-2026-79148 in the critical feed json

Off-by-one error in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to potentially…

published 2026-08-25 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-31 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-66071

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Off-by-one error in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to potentially read memory inside the sandbox via a crafted Chrome extension. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 152.0.7977.65
  • chromium Debian 12 152.0.7977.75-1~deb12u1
  • chromium Debian 13 152.0.7977.75-1~deb13u1
  • chromium Debian 14 152.0.7977.64-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-79148

  • chromium openSUSE Leap 16.0 152.0.7977.82-bp160.1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 152.0.7977.64-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21799-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11628-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-79148 updated

chromium-browser: Google Chrome DevTools: Information Disclosure via Off-by-one Error

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.