CVE-2026-19139
Description
A flaw was found in Google Chrome's CredentialProvider on Windows. This race condition vulnerability allows a local attacker to execute code with elevated operating system (OS) privileges. The attacker can achieve this by exploiting the flaw with a specially crafted malicious file, leading to OS-level privilege escalation.
Statement
This Moderate impact flaw affects Google Chrome's CredentialProvider on Windows, allowing a local attacker to achieve OS-level privilege escalation through a race condition with a malicious file. While Red Hat distributes the chromium component in community projects like Fedora and EPEL, this specific vulnerability is not applicable to Linux-based environments.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Integrity,Other
Technical Impact: Alter Execution Logic; Unexpected State
The attacker can gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.
Integrity,Other
Technical Impact: Modify Application Data; Modify Files or Directories; Modify Memory; Other
Race conditions such as this kind may be employed to gain read or write access to resources which are not normally readable or writable by the user in question.
Integrity,Other
Technical Impact: Other
The resource in question, or other resources (through the corrupted one), may be changed in undesirable ways by a malicious user.
Non-Repudiation
Technical Impact: Hide Activities
If a file or other resource is written in this method, as opposed to in a valid way, logging of the activity may not occur.
Non-Repudiation,Other
Technical Impact: Other
In some cases it may be possible to delete files a malicious user might not otherwise have access to, such as log files.
Other
Technical Impact: Unexpected State
The product may perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.
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