Summary
Impact: Spoofing. Microsoft rating: Low. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L),but lead to no loss of availability (A:N) and integrity (I:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view some sensitive information (Confidentiality) but not all resources within the impacted component may be divulged to the attacker. The attacker cannot make changes to disclosed information (Integrity) or limit access to the resource (Availability).
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
This vulnerability requires that a user have multiple browser instances open of the affected version of Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), one of which is a specially crafted website hosted by the attacker. The user would need to access the URL of the malicious website and then click a popup displayed on that site.
Security updates
156.0.4314.42 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 4.3
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Spoofing Vulnerability
Improper restriction of rendered ui layers or frames in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-20942 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Spoofing Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20942
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss