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high 8.8

CVE-2026-17899 json

Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a m…

published 3mo ago modified 17d ago also EUVD-2026-50648

cvss
8.8
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 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to perform privilege escalation via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 151.0.7922.72
  • chromium Debian 12 151.0.7922.71-1~deb12u1
  • chromium Debian 13 151.0.7922.71-1~deb13u1
  • chromium Debian 14 151.0.7922.71-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-17899

  • chromium openSUSE Leap 16.0 151.0.7922.173-bp160.1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 151.0.7922.71-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21624-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11434-1

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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-2026-17899 updated cvss 2.8

chromium-browser: chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools

  • 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
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
3mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel 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.