CVE-2026-79090

critical · 9.8

Improper privilege management in Actor in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to bypass system access restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

9.8

CVSS

0.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

36th

EPSS percentile

2026-08-25

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
google	chrome	< 152.0.7977.65

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References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0256176589.html
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/517673944

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-79090