What is GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcx?

GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcx is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Improper privilege management in Actor in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcx cover?

GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcx covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-79090. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcx?

GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcx has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcxCriticalCVSS 9.8

Improper privilege management in Actor in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-79090 →

📋 Description

Improper privilege management in Actor in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to bypass system access restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79090
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0256176589.html
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/517673944
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76vf-r5wf-8fcx