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Use after free in Gamepad in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.103 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)
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AnalysisAI
Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.103 allows remote attackers to exploit a use-after-free flaw in the Gamepad component via a crafted HTML page, requiring only that a victim visit a malicious site. Chromium rates this Critical severity and the CVSS score of 9.6 reflects scope change (sandbox escape) with high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the bug class and Critical Chromium rating make it a high-priority browser patch.
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerability resides in Chrome's Gamepad API implementation, which exposes USB/Bluetooth HID gamepad devices to web pages via the navigator.getGamepads() interface in the renderer process. CWE-416 (Use After Free) indicates that memory referenced by a pointer in the Gamepad subsystem is freed but later reused, typically due to lifecycle mismanagement of device or event objects across the IPC boundary between the renderer sandbox and the browser process. Because the Gamepad service runs with higher privileges than the sandboxed renderer, a UAF triggered through the Gamepad IPC surface is a well-known vector for escaping the Chromium sandbox on Windows, where the renderer is normally confined by job objects and integrity levels.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Google Chrome 149.0.7827.103 for Windows - update immediately via the Chrome Releases advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0153744567.html and force a relaunch so the new binary loads (Chrome does not apply the fix until the browser is restarted). Enterprise administrators should push the update via Chrome Browser Cloud Management, Google Update policies, or their endpoint management tooling, and verify version on endpoints. As a temporary compensating control before patching, administrators can disable the Gamepad API on managed fleets by blocking access to chrome://gamepad and using site/permission policies, or deploy enhanced site isolation and strict third-party site restrictions; the trade-off is that browser-based games and WebXR/HID-dependent apps will stop working. Users of Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi) should update as soon as those vendors ship the merged fix.
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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