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Use after free in WebView in Google Chrome on Android 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: Critical)
AnalysisAI
Sandbox escape in Google Chrome for Android versions prior to 148.0.7778.216 enables a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the sandbox via a use-after-free flaw in the WebView component. Chromium rates the severity as Critical, and a vendor patch is available; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is very low (0.03%, 10th percentile), but the chained-exploit potential against mobile users makes prompt patching important.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw is a CWE-416 use-after-free in Chrome's WebView on Android, the component that embeds Chromium's rendering engine inside Android apps and the Chrome browser itself. Use-after-free conditions arise when memory is freed but a dangling pointer continues to reference it, allowing an attacker who can reallocate the freed region with controlled data to manipulate object state, vtables, or function pointers. Because WebView code runs across the renderer and browser process boundary on Android, a UAF reachable from a renderer-supplied HTML page can be leveraged to corrupt structures handled by a more privileged process, enabling escape from the renderer sandbox. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome (Android builds prior to 148.0.7778.216).
RemediationAI
Upgrade Chrome for Android to vendor-released patch 148.0.7778.216 or later via Google Play; the Chrome Releases advisory (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0877304591.html) and the Chromium issue tracker entry (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/511715166) are the authoritative sources. For managed Android fleets, push the updated Chrome APK through MDM and verify the installed version. Where immediate patching is not possible, reduce risk of the prerequisite renderer compromise by enabling Enhanced Safe Browsing, restricting browsing to a vetted allowlist on high-risk devices, and discouraging use of in-app WebView for untrusted content - note that these controls degrade usability and do not directly close the UAF, so they are stopgaps until the update is applied.
Same weakness CWE-416 – Use After Free
View allSame technique Denial Of Service
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SUSE
Severity: High| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
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EUVD-2026-33183
GHSA-7q3p-9hf2-3vxw