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Remote crafted page requires user interaction and reliable UAF grooming (AC:H); vendor Low severity and 'potentially exploit' justify partial C/I/A rather than full impact.
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CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
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5DescriptionCVE.org
Use after free in Chrome for iOS in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
AnalysisAI
Heap corruption via a use-after-free in Google Chrome for iOS (versions prior to 151.0.7922.72) lets a remote attacker potentially corrupt memory when a victim opens a crafted HTML page, with the CVSS 8.8 vector modeling full confidentiality, integrity, and availability loss. Google reported it internally and Chromium rated the security severity as Low; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS is low at 0.21% (11th percentile), and SSVC records exploitation status as none.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw is a CWE-416 use-after-free, a memory-safety defect in which code continues to reference heap memory after it has been freed, letting an attacker reclaim that allocation with attacker-influenced data and steer subsequent dereferences toward heap corruption or control-flow hijack. It resides in the Chrome for iOS browser codebase (cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome), triggered while processing HTML/web content from a crafted page. Notably, Chrome on iOS is layered on Apple's WebKit/WKWebView rather than Blink, so the affected logic is Chrome's own iOS browser code; the exploitation path is the classic browser sequence of loading untrusted web content that manipulates object lifetimes to reach a freed-then-reused object.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome for iOS to 151.0.7922.72 or later via the Apple App Store; because iOS Chrome updates ship through the App Store, ensure automatic app updates are enabled or push the update through MDM so devices do not lag behind the stable channel. Verify the running version and confirm remediation against the Chrome Releases advisory (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html) and the Chromium issue (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/518243858). No separate configuration workaround is documented; as an interim compensating control while updates roll out, advise users to avoid opening untrusted links in Chrome on iOS and route higher-risk browsing through a patched or alternative browser, accepting the usability trade-off of restricting the primary browser until the update is applied.
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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EUVD-2026-50893
GHSA-pgp5-m32w-57xp