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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-50678

| CVE-2026-17758 CRITICAL
Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
2026-07-30 Chrome GHSA-ffm3-9wph-xpfx
Critical
Disputed · 9.6 Vendor: Chrome
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Sources disagree (Medium–Critical)
Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
9.6 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
8.3 HIGH

Remote crafted page needs only user visit (PR:N/UI:R), but reliable heap-overflow sandbox escape requires exploit sophistication so AC:H; scope changes (S:C) on escape with full host impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SUSE
CRITICAL
qualitative
Red Hat
9.6 MEDIUM
qualitative

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CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 30, 2026 - 17:25 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 30, 2026 - 17:22 NVD
9.6 (CRITICAL)
Patch available
Jul 30, 2026 - 02:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:19 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:19 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.6

DescriptionCVE.org

Heap buffer overflow in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

AnalysisAI

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome's Dawn WebGPU implementation (versions prior to 151.0.7922.72) lets a remote attacker corrupt heap memory in the GPU process via a crafted HTML page, potentially breaking out of the renderer sandbox to compromise the host. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/UI:R/S:C, base 9.6) reflects that exploitation only needs a victim to visit a malicious site but crosses a security boundary; Google rates the Chromium severity as Medium. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS is low (0.22%, 13th percentile), and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Technical ContextAI

Dawn is Chromium's open-source implementation of the WebGPU standard, providing web pages GPU compute and rendering access that runs in Chrome's GPU process. The root cause is CWE-122, a heap-based buffer overflow: attacker-controlled WebGPU calls from JavaScript reach native Dawn code where insufficient bounds checking on a heap allocation permits an out-of-bounds write. Because WebGPU is exposed to untrusted web content and Dawn code executes with GPU-process privileges (a less-restricted context than the renderer), a memory-corruption bug here is a plausible sandbox-escape primitive rather than a mere renderer crash. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome to 151.0.7922.72 or later on the Stable channel, which contains the Dawn fix; verify via chrome://settings/help and relaunch to complete the update, as Chrome staged rollouts can delay automatic delivery. See the vendor advisory at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html . If patching cannot be completed immediately, a specific compensating control is to disable WebGPU/Dawn by setting the chrome://flags/#enable-unsafe-webgpu flag to Disabled or deploying the WebGPU enterprise policy to off, which removes the vulnerable attack surface at the cost of breaking WebGPU-dependent sites and GPU-accelerated web apps; reducing exposure to untrusted sites and enforcing prompt auto-update via enterprise policy are additional interim measures. Users of Chromium-based browsers should apply their vendor's build incorporating the same Dawn fix.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Critical
Product Status
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Fixed
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Fixed
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 Affected

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