CVE-2026-13897
Published: 30 June 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-13897 is a high-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Google Chrome. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 22.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-40583
Vulnerability details
Insufficient policy enforcement in Chromecast in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Direct mapping from privilege escalation via crafted HTML page in browser component.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.
Requiring prior authorization for each remote access type prevents improper access control over remote connections.
Requiring authorization of wireless access before allowing connections enforces proper access control for this access method.
Hardening callouts derived
Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that reduce the attack surface for weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Derived transitively via CVE→CWE→STIG over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only).
Oracle Linux 8 (2 rules)
- V-248597 There must be no "shosts.equiv" files on the OL 8 operating system. via CWE-284
- V-248598 There must be no ".shosts" files on the OL 8 operating system. via CWE-284
Oracle Linux 9 (2 rules)
- V-271758 OL 9 file systems must not contain .shosts files. via CWE-284
- V-271757 OL 9 file systems must not contain shosts.equiv files. via CWE-284
RHEL 7 (2 rules)
- V-204606 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must not contain .shosts files. via CWE-284
- V-204607 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must not contain shosts.equiv files. via CWE-284
RHEL 8 (2 rules)
- V-230284 There must be no .shosts files on the RHEL 8 operating system. via CWE-284
- V-230283 There must be no shosts.equiv files on the RHEL 8 operating system. via CWE-284