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🛡️ CVE-2026-17666 — chrome

🔴 CVSS 9.1 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-325 NVD
9.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Cryptographic Flaw in Enterprise in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker in a privileged network position to bypass discretionary access control via malicious network traffic. (Chromium security severity: High)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-17666 is classified as CWE-325: Missing Cryptographic Step. A required step of a cryptographic algorithm is skipped, weakening the guarantees it should provide.

Affected software

CVE-2026-17666 is recorded against 1 package.

  • chrome (fixed in 151.0.7922.72)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 July 2026 and last revised on 3 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com
issues.chromium.org

Other advisories for this package

chrome has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-325: Missing Cryptographic Step) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-325
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
chrome — 151.0.7922.72

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