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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Requires a pre-compromised renderer foothold (PR:L) and reliable memory-reclamation plus victim navigation (AC:H, UI:R); success escapes the sandbox across a privilege boundary (S:C) with total impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
5DescriptionCVE.org
Use after free in Audio in Google Chrome 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 desktop prior to 151.0.7922.72 lets an attacker who has already compromised the renderer process leverage a use-after-free in the Audio component to break out of the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Rated High by Chromium and CVSS 9.6 due to scope change, this is a second-stage exploit primitive rather than an initial-access bug; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS is low at 0.29%. A vendor patch is available in Chrome 151.0.7922.72.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw is a CWE-416 use-after-free in Chrome's Audio subsystem, the code path that handles audio rendering/streaming between the sandboxed renderer and the browser process. Use-after-free occurs when memory is freed but a dangling pointer is later dereferenced, allowing an attacker to control the reused allocation and corrupt object state. Because the Audio service interacts across Chromium's multi-process privilege boundary, corrupting it from a compromised renderer can yield code execution at a higher-privilege level, hence the CVSS Scope:Changed (S:C). The single CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* confirms Google Chrome (all channels prior to the fix) as the affected product; the reused Chromium engine means Chromium-derived browsers may share the underlying code but are not enumerated in this record.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Chrome 151.0.7922.72 - update Google Chrome to 151.0.7922.72 or later on Windows, macOS, and Linux and fully relaunch the browser so the new binaries load (Chrome auto-updates but requires a restart to complete). Verify via chrome://settings/help and, in managed fleets, push the update through your enterprise update policy or MDM rather than relying on per-user restarts. There is no practical feature-level workaround for a renderer-to-browser sandbox escape since it lives in the Audio path exercised by ordinary web content; as an interim compensating control for high-risk endpoints, restrict browsing to trusted sites and enforce prompt update rollout, accepting that these do not neutralize the underlying bug. Users of other Chromium-based browsers should apply their vendor's build that incorporates the corresponding Chromium fix. Advisory: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html.
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 Leap 16.0 | Fixed |
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
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External POC / Exploit Code
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EUVD-2026-50834
GHSA-6946-9r36-jh5w