UI spoofing via undisclosed Payments validation flaw
Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026
Input validation in Payments in Google Chrome before 151.0.7922.72 allows remote attackers to spoof browser UI via crafted HTML. The public vendor advisory identifies the Payments component but keeps the issue details restricted, so the rejected input and validation failure are undisclosed. Exploitation requires a compromised renderer process and user interaction with attacker-controlled HTML; the reported consequence is deceptive browser UI, not code execution.
Summary
What happened
Input validation in Payments in Google Chrome before 151.0.7922.72 allows remote attackers to spoof browser UI via crafted HTML. The public vendor advisory identifies the Payments component but keeps the issue details restricted, so the rejected input and validation failure are undisclosed. Exploitation requires a compromised renderer process and user interaction with attacker-controlled HTML; the reported consequence is deceptive browser UI, not code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-17791
- Published
- Jul 30, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- Vendor
- Go standard library
- Product
- Google Chrome
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1036
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 30, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 30, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=151.0.7922.72 <151.0.7922.72
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