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Google Chrome CVE-2026-17699

| EUVDEUVD-2026-50825 HIGH
Use After Free (CWE-416)
2026-07-30 Chrome GHSA-49qh-vm7v-wv5w
8.6
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Chrome
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Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
8.6 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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8.6 HIGH

Local malicious-file vector with required user interaction (AV:L/UI:R), no prior privileges (PR:N), and a sandbox escape crossing a trust boundary yields scope change with high C/I/A.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SUSE
CRITICAL
qualitative
Red Hat
7.9 HIGH
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).

CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 30, 2026 - 18:36 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 30, 2026 - 16:37 NVD
8.6 (None) 8.6 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jul 30, 2026 - 02:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:18 cve.org
HIGH 8.6
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:18 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

Use after free in Views in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a local attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: High)

AnalysisAI

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome desktop before 151.0.7922.72 stems from a use-after-free in the Views UI framework, letting a local attacker who lures a user into opening a malicious file break out of the renderer sandbox with high-severity impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV; SSVC records exploitation as none, and the EPSS score is very low (0.18%, 7th percentile). …

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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata

Access
Deliver malicious file to local user
Delivery
User opens file in Chrome
Exploit
Trigger use-after-free in Views
Execution
Reclaim freed object in browser process
Persist
Escape renderer sandbox
Impact
Execute code at browser privilege

Vulnerability AssessmentAI

Exploitation Exploitation requires local delivery of a malicious file and user interaction to open/process it in Google Chrome (AV:L, UI:R in the CVSS vector), so it is not remotely exploitable without user action. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment Signals here are mixed and lean toward lower real-world urgency despite the 8.6 CVSS. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
Exploit Scenario An attacker crafts a malicious file and social-engineers a local user into opening it in Chrome; processing the file triggers the use-after-free in Views, corrupting browser-process memory to escape the renderer sandbox and gain code execution at the browser process's privilege level. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and the local vector plus required user interaction make this a targeted rather than mass-exploitation scenario.
Remediation Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome to 151.0.7922.72 or later on all desktop platforms; Chrome typically auto-updates, so ensure the browser is fully closed and relaunched to apply the update, and verify the version via chrome://settings/help. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Critical
Product Status
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Fixed
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Fixed
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Affected

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