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Use after free in GPU in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 148.0.7778.216 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
AnalysisAI
Renderer-to-browser sandbox escape in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 148.0.7778.216 enables remote code execution via a use-after-free in the GPU process. An attacker who has already compromised the renderer can leverage a crafted HTML page to corrupt GPU process memory and execute arbitrary code outside the renderer sandbox. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV, but Chromium rates the underlying severity as High.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw is a CWE-416 Use-After-Free in Chrome's GPU process, the privileged component responsible for hardware-accelerated graphics, WebGL, and compositing on macOS. Chrome's multi-process architecture isolates untrusted web content in a sandboxed renderer; the GPU process runs at a higher privilege level and communicates with renderers via Mojo IPC. A dangling pointer reached through GPU IPC messages can be reclaimed with attacker-controlled data, yielding code execution in the GPU process and effectively breaking out of the renderer sandbox. Affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome with the macOS build branch specifically called out by Google.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Google Chrome 148.0.7778.216 for macOS - update via Chrome's auto-update channel or by manually triggering an update under chrome://settings/help, then restart the browser to load the patched binary; see the Stable Channel advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0877304591.html and the upstream issue at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/500187083. For managed fleets, push the update via MDM (Jamf, Intune, Kandji) and verify Chrome version compliance reporting. Until the patch lands, compensating controls include disabling hardware acceleration in chrome://settings (Settings → System → Use graphics acceleration when available), which removes most attack surface in the GPU process at the cost of degraded WebGL/video performance and battery life, and restricting browsing to trusted sites via enterprise policy URLBlocklist; for Chromium downstream browsers on macOS, hold off until each vendor ships the merged fix.
Same weakness CWE-416 – Use After Free
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Severity: High| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
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EUVD-2026-33217
GHSA-phgw-f4xg-cpr8