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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-30425

| CVE-2026-8512 HIGH
Use After Free (CWE-416)
2026-05-14 Chrome GHSA-8747-7f43-99gq
8.3
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
8.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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8.3 HIGH

Network-delivered via a web page (AV:N) with no auth (PR:N) but requiring specific user gestures (UI:R) and non-trivial memory grooming (AC:H); sandbox escape crosses a trust boundary (S:C) with full impact.

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

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Analysis Generated
Jul 23, 2026 - 18:51 vuln.today
CVSS changed
May 14, 2026 - 22:22 NVD
8.3 (HIGH)
CVE Published
May 14, 2026 - 19:52 nvd
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
May 14, 2026 - 19:52 nvd
HIGH 8.3

DescriptionCVE.org

Use after free in FileSystem in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.168 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)

AnalysisAI

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome desktop before 148.0.7778.168 stems from a use-after-free in the FileSystem component, letting a remote attacker who serves a crafted HTML page and coaxes the victim into specific UI gestures corrupt memory and break out of the renderer sandbox. Chromium rates it Critical, and the CVSS:3.1 8.3 score reflects a scope change (S:C) with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV; EPSS is low at 0.07% (21st percentile).

Technical ContextAI

The flaw is a CWE-416 use-after-free in Chrome's FileSystem implementation, the Blink/browser-side subsystem that backs the sandboxed FileSystem/File API storage available to web content. A use-after-free occurs when a heap object is freed while a dangling reference remains, allowing later reuse of the stale pointer to read or write attacker-influenced memory. Because the affected code sits at the renderer-to-browser trust boundary (CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome), successful exploitation can pivot from the constrained renderer sandbox into the higher-privileged browser process, which is why the CVSS scope is marked Changed. Chrome's multiprocess architecture treats such sandbox-escape UAFs as Critical because they defeat the primary containment layer that isolates untrusted web content from the host.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome to 148.0.7778.168 or later on all desktop platforms; Chrome auto-updates but the fix only takes effect after the browser is fully relaunched, so force-restart to apply it. Enterprises managing Chrome via policy should push the updated build and confirm the running version, and Red Hat/SUSE users should install the corresponding vendor-rebuilt Chromium/Chrome package once available. Refer to the Chrome Releases advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html. If patching must be delayed, reduce exposure by having users avoid untrusted sites and by deploying site-isolation/enterprise policies already default in Chrome; note there is no documented feature-level toggle to disable the FileSystem code path, so the only reliable fix is upgrading - mitigations short of that offer limited assurance given the sandbox-escape impact.

Vendor StatusVendor

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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