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🛡️ CVE-2026-17948 — chrome

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-843 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Low)

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 unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • 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: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-17948 is classified as CWE-843: Type Confusion. A resource is accessed as one type while actually being another, so the interpretation of its memory is wrong.

Affected software

CVE-2026-17948 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-843: Type Confusion) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-843
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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