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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remote crafted page (AV:N, PR:N) requires only a page visit (UI:R); sandbox escape crosses a trust boundary (S:C) with total host impact (C/I/A:H).
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
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Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 150.0.7871.46 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
AnalysisAI
Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on macOS (versions prior to 150.0.7871.46) stems from a use-after-free in Dawn, Chrome's WebGPU/graphics abstraction layer, and allows a remote attacker who lures a victim to a crafted HTML page to potentially break out of the renderer sandbox and gain higher-privileged code execution on the host. The flaw is rated High by Chromium and carries a CVSS 9.6 due to its network attack vector, low complexity, and scope change. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, and CISA's SSVC framework currently marks exploitation as 'none' though technical impact as 'total'.
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerable component is Dawn, Chromium's implementation of the WebGPU standard that translates web-facing GPU API calls into native backend calls (Metal on macOS). WebGPU exposes low-level GPU functionality to JavaScript, giving web content a large and complex attack surface that runs partly in the GPU process. The root cause is CWE-416 (Use After Free): an object is freed while a dangling reference to it remains reachable, and subsequent access to that stale pointer can be manipulated to corrupt memory. Because the corruption occurs in a component that bridges the sandboxed renderer and more privileged GPU/system code, successful exploitation is characterized as a sandbox escape rather than a mere renderer compromise. The affected product per CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome (all versions before the fix), specifically the macOS build.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Google Chrome to 150.0.7871.46 or later on macOS, per the Chrome Stable Channel Update advisory (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0175352312.html); Chrome's built-in updater will apply this automatically on relaunch, so ensure users fully restart the browser. Because the vulnerability lives in the WebGPU/Dawn path, an interim compensating control until patching is complete is to disable WebGPU (for example via the chrome://flags/#enable-unsafe-webgpu and related GPU flags, or enterprise policy), which removes the vulnerable attack surface at the cost of breaking any WebGPU-dependent web applications and hardware-accelerated GPU features. Enforcing update deployment through enterprise management (Chrome Browser Cloud Management / MDM) is preferable to ad-hoc user updates for fleet coverage. No separate workaround is required once the fixed version is deployed.
Same weakness CWE-416 – Use After Free
View allSame technique Denial Of Service
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SUSE
Severity: Critical| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
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EUVD-2026-41199
GHSA-hmqr-q436-x68f