CVE-2026-87538

MEDIUMNVD 4.24.2—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 4.2 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-09. NVD baseline CVSS 4.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
4.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 4.2Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Clickjacking in Input in Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.36 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process and leveraged social engineering to spoof UI elements via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

CVSS v3
4.2
Vendor severity
LOWper Google (Chromium)Vendor's own band, not a CVSS rating — advisory text: (Chromium security severity: Low)
EG Score
4.2(high)
EG Risk
19(Track)
EG Risk 19/100SSVC: 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 computed
Severity42% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
11%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 9, 2026

Last Modified

September 10, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 9, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Chromium

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/522399466
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0808145027.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-87538(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

(1)

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 24× in last 7d / 40× 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.

  1. 2026-09-19 21:21 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-19 21:21 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-09-19 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-18 21:20 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-18 21:20 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-18 21:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-17 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-17 20:15 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-09-17 20:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-09-16 19:10 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-16 19:10 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-09-16 19:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-16 14:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-15 19:09 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-15 19:09 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-15 19:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-14 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-13 19:07 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-13 19:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-12 19:06 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-09-12 19:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-11 19:05 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-11 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-10 18:58 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-10 18:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-09 20:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-09 19:55 UTCEG score recompute▼ 1.20
  10. 2026-09-09 19:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-09 19:50 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 4.2 · severity → MEDIUM
  12. 2026-09-09 15:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-09 01:22 UTCNVD update
  14. 2026-09-09 00:58 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-09 00:57 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-87538?
CVE-2026-87538 is a medium vulnerability published on September 9, 2026. Clickjacking in Input in Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.36 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process and leveraged social engineering to spoof UI elements via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
When was CVE-2026-87538 disclosed?
CVE-2026-87538 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 9, 2026, with the most recent update on September 10, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-87538 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-87538 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 89.4% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-87538?
CVE-2026-87538 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.2 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-87538?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-87538, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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