CVE-2026-79242

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.35.3—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-25. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
5.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Observable discrepancy in HTML in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

CVSS v3
5.3
Vendor severity
MEDIUMper Google (Chromium)Vendor's own band, not a CVSS rating — advisory text: (Chromium security severity: Medium)
EG Score
5.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
24
EG Risk 24/100CISA 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
Severity53% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
19th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack 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). 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 28, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 26, 2026
Patch available.
generic

Chromium

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/517697155
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-2026-79242(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
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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
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 102× 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 162 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 63 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  2. 2026-10-10 11:24 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-10 11:24 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-10 11:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  5. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  6. 2026-10-09 06:04 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-09 06:04 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-09 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  9. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  10. 2026-10-08 04:41 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-08 04:41 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-08 04:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  13. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  14. 2026-10-07 03:19 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-07 03:19 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-07 03:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  17. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  18. 2026-10-06 01:57 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-06 01:57 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-06 01:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  21. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  22. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  23. 2026-10-04 19:46 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 19:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  25. 2026-10-03 16:18 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-03 16:18 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-03 16:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  3. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  4. 2026-10-02 09:13 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-02 09:13 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-02 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  7. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  8. 2026-10-01 07:52 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-01 07:52 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-01 07:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  11. 2026-09-30 06:30 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-30 06:30 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-30 06:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  14. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  15. 2026-09-29 00:32 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-29 00:32 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-09-29 00:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  18. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  19. 2026-09-27 23:08 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-27 23:08 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-09-27 23:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  22. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  23. 2026-09-26 21:47 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-26 21:47 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-26 21:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  26. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  27. 2026-09-26 00:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  28. 2026-09-25 07:07 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-25 07:07 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-25 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  31. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  32. 2026-09-24 05:45 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-24 05:45 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-24 05:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  35. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  36. 2026-09-23 04:24 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-23 04:24 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-23 04:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  39. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  40. 2026-09-22 03:03 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-09-22 03:03 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-22 03:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  43. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  44. 2026-09-21 01:40 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-21 01:40 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-21 01:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  47. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  48. 2026-09-19 23:49 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-09-19 23:49 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-19 23:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  51. 2026-09-18 22:28 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-09-18 22:28 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-09-18 22:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  54. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  55. 2026-09-17 21:06 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-09-17 21:06 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-17 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  58. 2026-09-16 15:42 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-09-16 15:42 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-16 15:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  61. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  62. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  63. 2026-09-15 14:14 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-15 14:14 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-15 14:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  66. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  67. 2026-09-14 12:52 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-09-14 12:52 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-14 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  70. 2026-09-13 11:30 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-09-13 11:30 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-13 11:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wwph-5m73-pp48 · GitHub CVSS 5.3
  73. 2026-09-12 10:08 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-09-12 10:08 UTCVendor advisory

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-79242?
CVE-2026-79242 is a medium vulnerability published on August 25, 2026. Observable discrepancy in HTML in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-79242 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-79242 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 August 28, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-79242 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-79242 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (19th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-79242?
CVE-2026-79242 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-79242?
A fix for CVE-2026-79242 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-79242 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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