CVE-2025-34090
Description
A security bypass flaw was found in Google Chrome. A local low-privileged attacker can hijack the COM class identifier registration used by Chrome's elevation service and point it to a non-existent or malicious binary. When this hijack occurs, Chrome silently falls back to the legacy cookie encryption mechanism, thereby enabling cookie decryption by any user-context malware without SYSTEM-level access.
Statement
This CVE has been marked as Rejected by the assigning CNA.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Access Control,Other
Technical Impact: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity; Varies by Context
An attacker can access any functionality that is inadvertently accessible to the source.
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