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AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorVendor: google
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Use after free in Aura in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.103 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 on Windows versions prior to 149.0.7827.103 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 Aura UI framework. Google rates the underlying Chromium issue as Critical severity, though exploitation requires a prior renderer compromise and user interaction (visiting a malicious page). No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV.
Technical ContextAI
Aura is Chromium's cross-platform UI abstraction layer responsible for window, input, and event management on Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS, and runs in the privileged browser process outside the renderer sandbox. The flaw is a CWE-416 Use-After-Free, a class of memory corruption in which freed heap memory is later referenced, allowing an attacker who can shape the freed object's replacement to hijack control flow or corrupt critical state. Because Aura executes in the browser process, a UAF triggered there from a compromised renderer is a prime sandbox-escape primitive - the renderer sends crafted IPC/UI events that cause the browser process to dereference a dangling pointer. The affected component is identified in the Chromium issue tracker (issues.chromium.org/issues/516691130) and fixed in the Windows Stable channel build 149.0.7827.103.
RemediationAI
Update Google Chrome on Windows to the vendor-released patch version 149.0.7827.103 or later via the Stable channel (advisory: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0153744567.html); Chrome's auto-updater will deliver this on next browser restart, so enterprise admins should force a relaunch rather than rely on user behavior. For Chromium-based downstream browsers, install the corresponding rebased build as soon as the vendor publishes it. Until patching is complete, compensating controls are limited because the bug is in core UI code reachable from any web page: enforce site isolation (enabled by default and should not be disabled), deploy Chrome's enterprise policy SitePerProcess and require the Enhanced Safe Browsing setting to reduce renderer-compromise odds, and consider network-level blocking of high-risk untrusted content categories for sensitive user populations - none of these prevent the Aura UAF itself but they raise the cost of obtaining the prerequisite renderer RCE. Disabling JavaScript in untrusted contexts via enterprise policy is the most effective workaround but breaks most modern web applications.
Same weakness CWE-416 – Use After Free
View allSame technique Memory Corruption
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SUSE
Severity: Critical| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
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EUVD-2026-35231
GHSA-xhf8-jxcw-9cvj