Vulnerability · Published Jan 6, 2026 · Assigned by Chrome

CVE-2026-0628

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity missing authorization in Chrome from Google. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 20.9% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)20.9%top 2.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView tag in Google Chrome prior to 143.0.7499.192 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to inject scripts or HTML into a privileged page via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: High)

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.23qt6-qtwebengine6.10.1-r4ALPINE-CVE-2026-0628
Alpine:v3.24qt6-qtwebengine6.10.2-r1ALPINE-CVE-2026-0628
Debian:12chromium143.0.7499.192-1~deb12u1DSA-6097-1
Debian:12chromium143.0.7499.192-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-0628
Debian:13chromium143.0.7499.192-1~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-0628
Debian:13chromium143.0.7499.192-1~deb13u1DSA-6097-1
Debian:14chromium143.0.7499.192-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-0628

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Google Chrome 143.0.7499.192 – before 143.0.7499.192

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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