CVE-2026-79175

HIGHPre-NVD 8.38.3—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-25. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 8.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 8.3Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

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

Type confusion in Accessibility in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

CVSS v3
8.3
Vendor severity
HIGHper Google (Chromium)Vendor's own band, not a CVSS rating — advisory text: (Chromium security severity: High)
EG Score
8.3(high)
EG Risk
37(Track)
EG Risk 37/100SSVC: 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
Severity83% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
29%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

August 27, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 26, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Chromium

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/498885920
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-2026-79175(1)

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 rangeFixed inDependents
chromium113.0.5672.126-1 ... 152.0.7977.64-1 (412 versions)152.0.7977.75-1~deb12u1—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
chromium138.0.7204.183-1 ... 152.0.7977.75-1~deb12u1 (178 versions)152.0.7977.75-1~deb13u1—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
chromium138.0.7204.183-1 ... 152.0.7977.75-1~deb13u1 (180 versions)——

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 40× in last 7d / 142× 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 142 total refreshes for this CVE.

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

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-79175?
CVE-2026-79175 is a high vulnerability published on August 25, 2026. Type confusion in Accessibility in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
When was CVE-2026-79175 disclosed?
CVE-2026-79175 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database 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-2026-79175 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-79175 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 70.6% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-79175?
CVE-2026-79175 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.3 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-79175?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-79175, 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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