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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-33090

| CVE-2026-9948 HIGH
Use After Free (CWE-416)
2026-05-28 Chrome GHSA-r8vc-287h-hwxg
8.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Chrome
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Severity by source

Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
8.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SUSE
HIGH
qualitative
Red Hat
9.0 HIGH
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).

CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

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
May 29, 2026 - 16:40 vuln.today
CVSS changed
May 29, 2026 - 16:27 NVD
8.3 (HIGH)
CVE Published
May 28, 2026 - 22:25 nvd
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
May 28, 2026 - 22:25 nvd
HIGH 8.3

DescriptionCVE.org

Use after free in Views in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 148.0.7778.216 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

AnalysisAI

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on macOS before 148.0.7778.216 allows a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the sandbox via a crafted HTML page that triggers a use-after-free in the Views UI component. The flaw is rated High severity by Chromium and carries a CVSS 8.3 due to scope change, but EPSS is only 0.03% and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Exploitation is realistic only as the second stage of a chained renderer compromise rather than a standalone drive-by attack.

Technical ContextAI

Views is Chromium's cross-platform UI framework that runs in the privileged browser process and renders browser chrome (tabs, menus, dialogs) using its own widget and event-dispatch system. CWE-416 (Use After Free) here means an object in the Views subsystem is freed while a dangling pointer remains reachable, and reusing that pointer allows controlled memory contents to be interpreted as a live object - yielding type confusion or arbitrary call primitives inside the browser process. Because Views lives outside the renderer sandbox, a successful UAF triggered through IPC from a compromised renderer effectively bridges the renderer/browser trust boundary. The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* matches all Chrome builds, but the description scopes impact specifically to the macOS build prior to 148.0.7778.216.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: Chrome 148.0.7778.216 for macOS - upgrade immediately via Chrome's stable channel auto-update or by forcing a relaunch through enterprise management (Jamf, Intune, Workspace ONE) and verifying the build under chrome://version. No vendor-published workaround exists because the defect is in core Views code, but because exploitation requires a prior renderer compromise, compensating controls that reduce renderer exposure are meaningful: enforce Site Isolation (already default), disable unneeded experimental features via the SitePerProcess and IsolateOrigins enterprise policies, and restrict installation of untrusted extensions which are a common renderer-compromise vector. Reference the Chrome Releases stable-channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0877304591.html and the Chromium issue tracker entry at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/503790201; note that aggressive policy lockdown can break legitimate web apps that rely on cross-origin features, so stage policy changes after the patch is deployed.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: High
Product Status
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Fixed
openSUSE Tumbleweed Fixed

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