Google Chrome: Information leak in Payments
Summary
A flaw in the Payments component of Google Chrome before 155.0.8059.39 can expose sensitive information. A remote attacker must socially engineer a user into opening a crafted HTML page, and no login is required. Chromium rates the issue as Low, while the NVD CVSS score is 8.8, so the actual impact should be verified.
Affected
- Google Chrome desktop prior to 155.0.8059.39
- The version range in the CVE record is inconsistent; check the vendor release notes.
Fixed in
- Google Chrome 155.0.8059.39 or later (Stable Channel Update for Desktop, October 6, 2026)
Workaround
Unknown. No vendor workaround found; updating is the documented fix.
Exploitation
- No evidence of exploitation in the wild found.
- CISA SSVC: exploitation none, not automatable.
- No public proof of concept found.
Our recommendation
- Update Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later and verify the version on all workstations.
- Update other Chromium-based browsers, such as Edge, to their fixed versions.
- Verify that auto-update works on managed endpoints.
- Prioritise users who handle payments or sensitive data in the browser.
Public exploits
PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit and Exploit-DB list nothing for this CVE.
Research sources
- Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop chromereleases.googleblog.com
- Chromium issue tracker issues.chromium.org
- OSV: DEBIAN-CVE-2026-106334 osv.dev
- HKCERT: Microsoft Edge multiple vulnerabilities www.hkcert.org
Researched and written up in English and German by an AI (Claude by Anthropic) based on NVD, CISA, EPSS and the sources listed. The vendor information is authoritative. Researched on 31 Oct 2026, 21:54.
Original description (NVD)
Information leak in Payments in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
Sources
The tracker combines official, freely usable data sources – updated continuously:
- NVD (NIST) – CVEs, rating (CVSS), affected products
- CISA KEV – vulnerabilities confirmed by CISA as actively exploited
- CISA Vulnrichment – CISA assessment (SSVC) in the official CVE record
- FIRST EPSS – probability of exploitation
- Microsoft MSRC – Patch Tuesday: vulnerabilities, severity, updates
- PoC-in-GitHub – public proof-of-concept repositories
- Metasploit (Rapid7) – modules of the Metasploit Framework
- Exploit-DB (OffSec) – archive of public exploits (links only)
- Patch days: official vendor pages (linked per vendor) (Vendor patch days)
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