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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Use after free in Compositing 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 prior to 149.0.7827.53 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the renderer sandbox by enticing a user to visit a crafted HTML page that triggers a use-after-free in the Compositing component. The flaw carries a CVSS 8.8 rating and is tagged as RCE/DoS/memory corruption, though no public exploit identified at time of analysis and Google rates the security severity as Medium. Exploitation is constrained to in-sandbox code execution and requires user interaction (visiting the malicious page).
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerability resides in Chrome's Compositing subsystem, which is part of the Blink/Chromium rendering pipeline responsible for layering and compositing graphical elements (layers, paint records, GPU-backed surfaces) before they are rasterized to the screen. CWE-416 (Use After Free) indicates that an object in the compositor's lifecycle is freed while a dangling reference is still reachable; subsequent dereference of that pointer with attacker-controlled heap layout enables arbitrary read/write and eventually code execution in the renderer process. Because the renderer is sandboxed (S:U in the CVSS vector), the immediate impact is confined to the renderer process - a separate sandbox-escape bug would be required to achieve full system compromise.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Google Chrome 149.0.7827.53 - update Chrome desktop to this version or later via the built-in updater (chrome://settings/help) or by redeploying the managed MSI/PKG in enterprise environments, per the advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html. Administrators using Chromium-based browsers should track their vendor's release notes and apply the equivalent updated build as soon as it ships. As a temporary compensating control prior to patch rollout, restrict browsing to trusted sites via enterprise URL allowlists (Chrome's URLBlocklist/URLAllowlist policies) and consider disabling hardware-accelerated compositing through the 'Use hardware acceleration when available' setting or the HardwareAccelerationModeEnabled policy - be aware this materially degrades rendering performance and video playback and does not fully eliminate the compositor code path, so it is at best a partial mitigation.
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Same weakness CWE-416 – Use After Free
View allSame technique Memory Corruption
View allVendor StatusVendor
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-2026-34586
GHSA-6w48-v89v-cp2g