Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting chromium package, versions [,136.0.7103.48)
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- published16 Nov 2025
- disclosed14 Nov 2025
- creditAlesandro Ortiz, Daniel Fröjdendahl
Introduced: 14 Nov 2025
NewCVE-2025-13097 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade chromium to version 136.0.7103.48 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure through the openInNewTab() function in the InspectorFrontendHostStub class within Chrome's DevTools component. An attacker can perform a sandbox escape by crafting an HTML page that passes a javascript: URL scheme to the openInNewTab() method, which does not validate URL schemes before opening them in a new tab.