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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-50943

| CVE-2026-18017 HIGH
Use After Free (CWE-416)
2026-07-30 Chrome GHSA-434r-58rq-9884
High
Disputed · 8.8 Vendor: Chrome
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Severity by source

Sources disagree (Low–Critical)
Vendor (Chrome) PRIMARY
8.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
8.8 HIGH

Remote crafted page needs only a victim visit (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R); renderer RCE yields full C/I/A within the unchanged sandbox scope (S:U).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
CRITICAL
qualitative
Red Hat
4.3 LOW
qualitative

vuln.today treats the vendor’s rating as authoritative. A higher third-party CVSS (e.g. CISA-ADP) is shown for transparency but does not drive the headline severity.

CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome

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

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 30, 2026 - 13:31 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 30, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
8.8 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jul 30, 2026 - 02:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:26 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jul 30, 2026 - 00:26 cve.org
HIGH 8.8

DescriptionCVE.org

Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)

AnalysisAI

Memory-corruption remote code execution in Google Chrome's Dawn WebGPU graphics component affects all Desktop builds prior to 151.0.7922.72, where a crafted HTML page triggers a use-after-free (CWE-416) that lets a remote attacker run arbitrary code - though confined inside the renderer sandbox, which is why Chromium rated it Low despite the CVSS 8.8. Exploitation requires only that a victim load a malicious page (UI:R), with no authentication. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the CVE is not on CISA KEV.

Technical ContextAI

Dawn is Chromium's cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU API, the successor to WebGL that gives web pages low-level access to GPU compute and rendering. It parses and validates GPU commands originating from untrusted JavaScript, making it a rich attack surface for memory-safety bugs. The flaw is a use-after-free (CWE-416): an object is freed while a dangling reference remains reachable, and subsequent access to that stale pointer allows an attacker to corrupt heap memory and hijack control flow. The single affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, i.e. the Chrome desktop application; because Dawn is also embedded in other Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Electron apps), downstream products built on the same engine may share the underlying defect.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome to 151.0.7922.72 or later via the Stable Desktop channel (chrome://settings/help forces the update check, then relaunch to apply). Enterprise fleets should push the update through their managed-browser channel and confirm relaunch, since Chrome's background updater does not take effect until restart. Reference advisory: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0887107924.html. If immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure by disabling WebGPU via enterprise policy or the chrome://flags/#enable-unsafe-webgpu toggle, which removes the Dawn attack surface at the cost of breaking GPU-accelerated web applications; avoiding untrusted sites and maintaining standard sandbox hardening further limit risk. Users of other Chromium-based browsers should apply their vendor's corresponding Dawn update when released.

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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