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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-50806

| CVE-2026-17680 CRITICAL
Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
2026-07-30 Chrome GHSA-cwp6-3cc4-8qxc
9.6
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Chrome
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Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
9.6 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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9.6 CRITICAL

Retained AV:N/PR:N/UI:R per Chromium convention treating renderer compromise as baseline; S:C reflects sandbox escape into the OS with full C/I/A impact, matching 9.6.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).

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 - 15:30 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 30, 2026 - 15:22 NVD
9.6 (CRITICAL)
Patch available
Jul 30, 2026 - 02:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:18 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:18 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.6

DescriptionCVE.org

Heap buffer overflow in Color in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

AnalysisAI

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on ChromeOS (versions prior to 151.0.7922.72) stems from a heap buffer overflow in the Color component, allowing a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Chromium rates the severity High and the CVSS score is 9.6 owing to the scope change into the host OS. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV; EPSS is low at 0.31% (24th percentile), consistent with a second-stage bug that requires a prior renderer compromise.

Technical ContextAI

The flaw is a CWE-122 heap-based buffer overflow located in Chromium's 'Color' handling code, which processes color values and profiles derived from web content (e.g., CSS colors, ICC/color-management data). Malformed input can cause an out-of-bounds write on the heap, corrupting adjacent allocator metadata or object pointers. Because the affected code runs in a privileged context reachable from the compromised renderer, a successful overflow can be leveraged to escape the renderer sandbox. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome identifies the affected application as Google Chrome, and the description scopes real-world impact to the ChromeOS platform build. This is characteristic of a chained exploit: the memory-safety defect in Color is the sandbox-escape primitive, not the initial code-execution vector.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: 151.0.7922.72 - upgrade Google Chrome/ChromeOS to 151.0.7922.72 or later, as published in the Chrome Stable Channel update advisory (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html). On ChromeOS, ensure automatic OS updates are enabled and force a device restart to apply the pending update, and use enterprise policies (Google Admin console) to pin managed fleets to the fixed milestone. If immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure to the initial renderer-compromise stage by restricting browsing to trusted sites and enforcing a strict site-isolation/enterprise browsing policy; note this only lowers the odds of the precursor renderer exploit and does not remove the Color overflow itself, so it is a stopgap, not a fix. There is no feature toggle that disables the vulnerable Color path without breaking rendering, so upgrading is the only reliable remediation.

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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