CVE-2026-79033

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-25. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Insufficient control flow management in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to potentially execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

CVSS v3
8.8
Vendor severity
MEDIUMper Google (Chromium)Vendor's own band, not a CVSS rating — advisory text: (Chromium security severity: Medium)
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA SSVC

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
Severity88% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
33rd
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

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

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

August 27, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 26, 2026
Patch available.
generic

Chromium

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/532914769
generic

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

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

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-79033(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
—
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 31× in last 7d / 151× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 237 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-09 03:50 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-09 03:50 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-09 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-10-08 02:23 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-08 02:23 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-08 02:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-10-07 04:45 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-07 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-06 16:02 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-06 16:02 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-06 16:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-10-06 01:56 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-06 01:56 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-06 01:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-10-05 08:29 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-05 08:29 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-05 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-10-04 19:46 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-04 19:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-10-04 05:00 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-04 05:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 16:18 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-03 16:18 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-03 16:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-10-03 01:35 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-03 01:35 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-03 01:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-02 12:52 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-02 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-01 22:40 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-01 22:40 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-01 22:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-10-01 08:53 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-01 08:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-30 20:10 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-30 20:10 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-30 20:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-30 06:28 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-30 06:28 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-30 06:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-29 14:34 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-09-29 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-09-29 01:31 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-29 01:31 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-09-29 01:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-09-28 12:32 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-09-28 12:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-09-27 23:48 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-27 23:48 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-09-27 23:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  37. 2026-09-27 10:57 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-27 10:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-09-26 21:44 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-09-26 21:44 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-09-26 21:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  43. 2026-09-26 00:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-09-25 13:53 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-09-25 13:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-09-25 00:58 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-09-25 00:58 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-09-25 00:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  50. 2026-09-24 12:15 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-24 12:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-09-23 23:31 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-23 23:31 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-23 23:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-09-23 10:48 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-23 10:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-09-22 22:01 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-09-22 22:01 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-22 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  62. 2026-09-22 09:18 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-09-22 09:18 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-22 09:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  66. 2026-09-21 20:28 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-21 20:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-09-21 07:37 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-09-21 07:37 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-09-21 07:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  72. 2026-09-20 18:24 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-20 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-09-20 05:41 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-20 05:41 UTCGHSA enrichment

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-79033?
CVE-2026-79033 is a high vulnerability published on August 25, 2026. Insufficient control flow management in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to potentially execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
When was CVE-2026-79033 disclosed?
CVE-2026-79033 was first published on August 25, 2026, with the most recent update on August 27, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-79033 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-79033 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (33rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-79033?
CVE-2026-79033 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-79033?
A fix for CVE-2026-79033 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-79033 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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