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AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remote crafted page (AV:N) with no auth (PR:N) but requires user gestures (UI:R) and a hard-to-win heap race (AC:H); renderer code execution yields full C/I/A.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
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3DescriptionCVE.org
Use after free in AdFilter in Google Chrome on Android prior to 149.0.7827.201 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
AnalysisAI
Use-after-free code execution in Google Chrome's AdFilter component affects the Android build prior to 149.0.7827.201, letting a remote attacker who lures a user into performing specific UI gestures on a crafted HTML page run arbitrary code in the browser process. Google (Chromium) rated it High severity; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA SSVC records exploitation status as none. EPSS is low at 0.22% (13th percentile), consistent with a memory-corruption bug that requires user interaction and high attack complexity rather than trivial mass exploitation.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw is a CWE-416 Use-After-Free in AdFilter, the ad-filtering/subresource-filtering subsystem inside Chromium's rendering and navigation stack. A use-after-free occurs when a heap object is freed while a dangling pointer to it remains reachable; subsequent reuse of that pointer lets an attacker groom the heap and redirect control flow, which in a browser typically yields renderer-process code execution that can then be chained toward a sandbox escape. The affected code is delivered as part of the Google Chrome browser (CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome), and the description specifically scopes impact to the Android platform build, where AdFilter processes attacker-supplied page content during rendering.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome to 149.0.7827.201 or later, per the Chrome Releases advisory (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_01245939337.html); on Android update via the Play Store and relaunch the browser to complete the update, and on Linux distributions apply the corresponding SUSE/Red Hat packaged Chromium updates when published. Because exploitation requires the user to load a malicious page and perform specific gestures, an effective interim compensating control is to enable Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing and 'Always use secure connections' and caution users against interacting with untrusted sites; in managed fleets, enterprises can enforce automatic browser updates via policy so the fix deploys without user action. No standalone workaround disables AdFilter safely, so patching is the primary remediation.
Same weakness CWE-416 – Use After Free
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Severity: ImportantShare
External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-39563
GHSA-479w-wqjm-fhvf