Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium package, versions [,152.0.7977.65)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-19424736
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed25 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-79090  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 152.0.7977.65 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management in the Actor process. An attacker can gain unauthorized system access by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page through social engineering techniques.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1