CVE-2026-78979

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.34.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-25. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 4.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
4.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 4.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Race condition in Core in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to bypass web origin policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

CVSS v3
4.3
Vendor severity
LOWper Google (Chromium)Vendor's own band, not a CVSS rating — advisory text: (Chromium security severity: Low)
EG Score
4.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
19
EG Risk 19/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity43% × 45%
The EG Score, 4.3 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
10th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

September 17, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 27, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Chromium

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/503720291
Web page

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0256176589.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-78979(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium113.0.5672.126-1 ... 152.0.7977.64-1 (412 versions)
  • every version up to 152.0.7977.75-1~deb12u1: fixed in 152.0.7977.75-1~deb12u1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium138.0.7204.183-1 ... 152.0.7977.75-1~deb12u1 (178 versions)
  • every version up to 152.0.7977.75-1~deb13u1: fixed in 152.0.7977.75-1~deb13u1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
chromium138.0.7204.183-1 ... 151.0.7922.71-1~deb13u1 (176 versions)
  • every version up to 152.0.7977.64-1: fixed in 152.0.7977.64-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 100× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 169 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 70 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  2. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  3. 2026-10-12 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-11 19:22 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-11 16:38 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-11 13:57 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  8. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  9. 2026-10-10 11:16 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-10 11:16 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-10 11:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  12. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  13. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  14. 2026-10-08 09:02 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-08 09:02 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-08 09:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  17. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  18. 2026-10-07 08:45 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-07 08:45 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-07 08:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  21. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  22. 2026-10-06 08:08 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-06 08:08 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-06 08:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  25. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-05 07:52 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-05 07:52 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-05 07:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  4. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  5. 2026-10-04 07:35 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-04 07:35 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-04 07:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  8. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  9. 2026-10-03 07:19 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-03 07:19 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-03 07:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  12. 2026-10-02 07:02 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-02 07:02 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-02 07:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  15. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  16. 2026-10-01 06:45 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-01 06:45 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-01 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  19. 2026-09-30 06:27 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-30 06:27 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-09-30 06:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  22. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  23. 2026-09-28 22:34 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-28 22:34 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-28 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  26. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  27. 2026-09-27 22:18 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-27 22:18 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-09-27 22:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  30. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  31. 2026-09-26 21:43 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-09-26 21:43 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-09-26 21:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  34. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
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  36. 2026-09-25 00:44 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-25 00:44 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-25 00:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  39. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  40. 2026-09-24 00:27 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-09-24 00:27 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-24 00:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  43. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  44. 2026-09-23 00:11 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-23 00:11 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-23 00:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  47. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  48. 2026-09-21 23:54 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-09-21 23:54 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-21 23:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  51. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  52. 2026-09-20 23:38 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-20 23:38 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-20 23:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  55. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  56. 2026-09-19 23:21 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-19 23:21 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-19 23:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  59. 2026-09-18 23:04 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-09-18 23:04 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-09-18 23:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  62. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  63. 2026-09-17 22:48 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-17 22:48 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-17 22:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  66. 2026-09-17 03:20 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-09-17 03:20 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-09-17 03:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
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  71. 2026-09-16 03:02 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-09-16 03:02 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-16 03:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9ggg-2f3c-q2r7 · GitHub CVSS 4.3
  74. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-78979?
CVE-2026-78979 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 25, 2026. Race condition in Core in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to bypass web origin policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-78979 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-78979 was published on August 25, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-78979 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-78979 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (10th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-78979?
CVE-2026-78979 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-78979?
A fix for CVE-2026-78979 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-78979 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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