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Use after free in Accessibility in Google Chrome on Windows 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 Windows prior to 148.0.7778.216 allows a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the browser sandbox via a crafted HTML page exploiting a use-after-free in the Accessibility component. Chromium rates the severity as High and a vendor patch is available, but no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS exploitation probability remains very low at 0.03%.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw is a CWE-416 use-after-free in Chrome's Accessibility subsystem, which exposes the DOM and UI tree to assistive technologies and runs partially in the privileged browser process. Use-after-free conditions arise when memory is freed but a dangling pointer is later dereferenced, enabling attackers to control object contents and hijack execution flow. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome on Windows, and the bug specifically aids sandbox escape - meaning the bug crosses the renderer/browser process boundary that Chromium's site-isolation architecture is designed to enforce.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Google Chrome 148.0.7778.216 for Windows - apply by upgrading to this version or later via the Stable Channel update referenced at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0877304591.html, and for managed fleets push the update through Chrome Browser Cloud Management or enterprise MSI. Administrators of Chromium-derived browsers should monitor their respective vendors for the equivalent merged fix referenced in chromium issue 498883610. If patching cannot be performed immediately, compensating controls include disabling accessibility features via the --disable-features=AccessibilityServiceURL flag or via group policy (trade-off: degrades screen-reader and assistive-technology support), enforcing site isolation and strict Enhanced Safe Browsing to reduce renderer-compromise primitives that this bug chains from, and restricting browsing to trusted sites through enterprise URL allowlists. There is no reliable network-perimeter mitigation since the trigger is a crafted HTML page over normal HTTPS traffic.
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-2026-33200
GHSA-2jjr-f7gv-3rc9