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Bad cast in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
AnalysisAI
Remote code execution in Google Chrome versions prior to 149.0.7827.53 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the renderer sandbox by serving a crafted HTML page that triggers a bad cast in the Dawn WebGPU implementation. The flaw carries a CVSS 8.8 rating with user interaction required (visiting a malicious page), and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis despite Google rating the underlying Chromium severity as Medium. The vendor has released a patched stable channel build addressing this issue alongside other fixes.
Technical ContextAI
Dawn is Chromium's cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard, providing GPU-accelerated graphics and compute capabilities to web content through a C++ abstraction layer over native APIs such as Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D 12. A 'bad cast' (incorrect type conversion, related to CWE-125 out-of-bounds read class) occurs when an object is interpreted as a type incompatible with its actual layout, causing the engine to dereference or operate on memory under attacker influence. Because Dawn runs inside Chrome's GPU/renderer process boundary, exploitation yields code execution constrained to the sandboxed process rather than the underlying OS, but it still represents a powerful primitive often chained with a sandbox escape for full system compromise.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome to 149.0.7827.53 or later via the stable channel auto-update mechanism, with details at the Chrome Releases advisory (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html). Enterprises managing Chrome via group policy should verify the LastVersion enforcement and accelerate the deployment ring for this update, and operators of Chromium-derivative browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Electron-based apps) should track their respective vendor releases that incorporate the upstream Dawn fix. As a compensating control until patching, administrators can disable WebGPU via the chrome://flags 'Unsafe WebGPU' setting or the WebGPU enterprise policy, with the trade-off of breaking sites that rely on GPU compute or modern graphics APIs; blocking untrusted browsing destinations via URL allowlisting reduces exposure but does not address watering-hole or malvertising delivery.
Same weakness CWE-125 – Out-of-bounds Read
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SUSE
Severity: Important| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
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EUVD-2026-34525
GHSA-wm73-cxm9-jwx9