CVE-2026-76039
Description
A flaw was found in Chromium, specifically in its Core component on Android. This vulnerability, caused by incorrect reference resolution, allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. By leveraging social engineering and a specially crafted HTML page, an attacker could exploit this flaw to disclose confidential data.
Statement
This flaw is rated as Important as it allows information disclosure through incorrect reference resolution in Chromium's Core component. While exploitation requires user interaction via social engineering and a crafted HTML page, successful attacks could expose sensitive user information in Red Hat environments utilizing Chromium-based browsers.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Access Control
Technical Impact: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity
The attacker can gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.
Integrity,Confidentiality,Other
Technical Impact: Modify Application Data; Modify Files or Directories; Read Application Data; Read Files or Directories; Other
Race conditions such as this kind may be employed to gain read or write access to resources not normally readable or writable by the user in question.
Integrity,Other
Technical Impact: Modify Application Data; 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 a valid way, logging of the activity may not occur.
Non-Repudiation,Integrity
Technical Impact: Modify Files or Directories
In some cases it may be possible to delete files that a malicious user might not otherwise have access to -- such as log files.
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