Privilege escalation via DevTools policy enforcement
Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026
Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome before 151.0.7922.72 allows attackers to escalate privileges through a crafted extension. The public record identifies DevTools policy enforcement as the locus but does not disclose which policy check or privileged operation is mishandled. Exploitation requires a user to install a malicious Chrome extension; the resulting elevated access is not further bounded in public vendor material.
Summary
What happened
Insufficient policy enforcement in Google Chrome before 151.0.7922.72 allows attackers to escalate privileges through a crafted extension. The public record identifies DevTools policy enforcement as the locus but does not disclose which policy check or privileged operation is mishandled. Exploitation requires a user to install a malicious Chrome extension; the resulting elevated access is not further bounded in public vendor material.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-17899
- Published
- Jul 30, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- Vendor
- Go standard library
- Product
- Google Chrome
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
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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