Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
AC:H and UI:R reflect the required prior renderer compromise plus crafted-page interaction; PR:N follows CVSS treatment of the renderer as untrusted, S:C and C/I/A:H capture the full sandbox escape.
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Insufficient policy enforcement in GPU in Google Chrome on Android prior to 148.0.7778.168 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
AnalysisAI
Sandbox escape in Google Chrome for Android before 148.0.7778.168 lets an attacker who has already compromised the renderer process break out of the sandbox through insufficient policy enforcement in the GPU component, escalating a contained renderer bug into fuller device compromise via a crafted HTML page. Rated Medium by Chromium but scored CVSS 8.3 by NVD due to the scope change and total technical impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS probability is low (0.09%).
Technical ContextAI
The flaw lives in Chrome's GPU process, which mediates hardware-accelerated rendering (WebGL, WebGPU, compositing) on behalf of the sandboxed renderer via IPC. CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure) indicates the GPU process failed to correctly enforce a security policy on requests coming from the renderer, allowing a compromised renderer to reach functionality it should not, thereby crossing the sandbox boundary. On Android this boundary is a core mitigation because the renderer runs as an isolated, low-privilege process; weakening the GPU-side policy check undermines the multi-process sandbox model. The affected component is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome and the Chromium issue tracker entry 491422244.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: 148.0.7778.168 - update Google Chrome for Android to 148.0.7778.168 or later via the Chrome Releases advisory (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html); on Android, ensure Play Store auto-updates are enabled so the fixed build rolls out. Users of downstream Chromium builds (Red Hat, SUSE) should apply their distribution's corresponding Chromium update. No standalone workaround fully closes a GPU sandbox escape, but because exploitation requires a prior renderer compromise, interim risk can be reduced by keeping Chrome fully updated to eliminate the renderer bugs that would chain into this issue and by avoiding untrusted sites; on desktop-style deployments GPU acceleration can be disabled to shrink the attack surface, with the trade-off of degraded rendering performance, though this control is not practical on Android. Patching to 148.0.7778.168 is the only reliable fix.
Same weakness CWE-693 – Protection Mechanism Failure
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SUSE
Severity: High| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Fixed |
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EUVD-2026-30391
GHSA-mgqf-qh5m-w5xx