Address-bar spoofing after renderer compromise
Published Aug 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 26, 2026
Missing authorization in Google Chrome Core before 152.0.7977.65 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via crafted HTML. The Chromium issue is access-restricted, and Google has not published which Core authorization check is omitted or how the HTML reaches it. Exploitation requires an already compromised renderer process and user interaction with the page; the reported consequence is address-bar spoofing.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in Google Chrome Core before 152.0.7977.65 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via crafted HTML. The Chromium issue is access-restricted, and Google has not published which Core authorization check is omitted or how the HTML reaches it. Exploitation requires an already compromised renderer process and user interaction with the page; the reported consequence is address-bar spoofing.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-78968
- Published
- Aug 25, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Google Cloud
- Product
- Google Chrome
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1036
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 25, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=152.0.7977.65 <152.0.7977.65
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