Out of bounds read in Media in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to read memory outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
CVE-2026-79004
Google's Chromium security team rated this Medium in the advisory text — the exact wording is "(Chromium security severity: Medium)". Chromium's CNA does not publish a CVSS vector, and NVD has not yet analysed this record, so there is no CVSS v3.1, v4.0 or v2.0 base score for it from any source. EchelonGraph publishes 6.5 (MEDIUM), derived from the VENDOR'S OWN SEVERITY BAND — not from a CVSS vector. That number is calibrated, not assumed: across 859 Chromium CVEs that NVD has since scored, a Chromium "Medium" carried a median CVSS v3 base of 6.5. This score is provisional and will be superseded the moment any source publishes a real CVSS base. EPSS predicts 0.3% exploitation probability in the next 30 days, which is reflected in EG Risk but does not lift a vendor-band score. Confidence: LOW.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- —
- Vendor severity
- MEDIUMper Google (Chromium)Vendor's own band, not a CVSS rating — advisory text: (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- EG Score
- 6.5(low)
- EG Risk
- 34(Track)EG Risk 34/100SSVC: Track
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 computedSeverity65% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 21%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 25, 2026
Last Modified
August 26, 2026
References (2)
- chrome-cve-admin@googlehttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0256176589.html
- chrome-cve-admin@googlehttps://issues.chromium.org/issues/536428988
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-79004(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 13× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-29 12:51 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-29 12:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-28 14:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-27 15:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-26 16:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-26 16:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-26 14:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-25 21:26 UTCNVD update
- 2026-08-25 20:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-25 20:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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