🛡️ CVE-2025-53791 — edge-chromium

🟡 CVSS 4.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 NVD
4.7
CVSS Score
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Description

Improper access control in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-53791 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53791 is recorded against 1 package.

  • edge-chromium (fixed in 140.0.3485.54)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 September 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-09-05
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
edge-chromium 140.0.3485.54

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