Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium package, versions [,151.0.7922.72)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-18504989
  • published1 Aug 2026
  • disclosed30 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-17863  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 151.0.7922.72 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management in the Browser process. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by tricking a local user into opening a specially crafted malicious file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1