CVE-2026-79103
Description
A flaw was found in Google Chrome's Speech component. This vulnerability involves incorrect reference resolution, which a remote attacker can exploit to bypass site isolation. The attacker needs to have compromised the renderer process and then trick a user into visiting a specially crafted HTML page. This could allow the attacker to access data or resources that are meant to be isolated.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
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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