Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to malicious page
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DeliveryDeliver crafted HTML navigation sequence
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ExploitTrigger use-after-free in Navigation
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ExecutionCorrupt heap and hijack control flow
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PersistEscape renderer sandbox
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ImpactExecute arbitrary code on host
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ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Memory lifecycle management
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to load attacker-controlled web content in Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 - i.e., visiting a malicious page or rendering a malicious iframe/ad that executes a crafted navigation sequence (consistent with UI:R in the CVSS vector). No authentication or special Chrome configuration is required (PR:N, default browser behavior), so standard default installs are affected. The key limiting factors are: (1) mandatory user interaction to open the content, and (2) the inherent difficulty of weaponizing a UAF into a reliable sandbox escape, which typically demands heap grooming and may require chaining with an additional primitive - reflected in SSVC Automatable:no. |
| Impact | This is a genuine high-priority vulnerability, not an inflated high-CVSS score. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H, 9.6) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated use-after-free in Chrome's Navigation component that achieves a scope change (S:C) - consistent with the description's claim of code execution OUTSIDE the renderer sandbox, which is the worst class of browser bug because it breaks the primary containment boundary. However, the signals are not uniformly alarming: CISA's SSVC decision framework reports Exploitation: none and Automatable: no, and there is no CISA KEV listing and no public POC in the provided data, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The one tension to note: SSVC Automatable:no while CVSS is AC:L - this is reconcilable because reliable UAF/sandbox-escape exploitation typically requires precise heap grooming and often chains with a second bug, so it is not trivially mass-automatable even though the triggering vector is simple. The practical limiter is UI:R: a victim must load attacker-controlled content. Net: patch urgently given Chrome's ubiquity and the sandbox-escape impact, but current evidence points to no active exploitation. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a malicious web page (or injects a malicious ad/iframe into a legitimate site) that drives a crafted navigation sequence triggering the use-after-free in Chrome's Navigation code. When a victim visits the page, the freed object is reclaimed and manipulated to corrupt memory and execute attacker code outside the browser sandbox. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and the attack requires user interaction (visiting the page). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026
Memory corruption in Google Chrome's Navigation component - a use-after-free (CWE-416) - allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code outside the browser sandbox on any Chrome installation prior to 155.0.8059.39 by getting a user to load a crafted HTML page. The flaw is rated Critical by Chromium with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H): no authentication is required and delivery is network-based, but exploitation still depends on the victim rendering attacker-controlled content, and the scope change (S:C) reflects that successful exploitation escapes the renderer sandbox to affect the host system. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis (CISA SSVC Exploitation: none, Automatable: no), and this is a genuine high-priority issue rather than an inflated high-CVSS score.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Google Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later, distributed via the stable channel update announcement at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html and detailed in the Chromium issue at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/567160164. The fastest path is to let Chrome's built-in updater fetch the release and then fully restart the browser, since an in-progress UAF only matters while the vulnerable binary is running; managed fleets should force the version via enterprise update policies and verify the reported version in chrome://version. There is no drop-in configuration workaround that removes the Navigation UAF - disabling JavaScript or blocking untrusted pages reduces exposure to the crafted navigation sequence but breaks most web applications and does not eliminate the bug, and renderer sandboxing (site isolation) is already enabled by default and cannot be relied on as a substitute because this flaw's impact is explicitly outside the sandbox (S:C). Until patching is complete, treat this as a short-window exposure item: prioritize Chrome updates on internet-facing endpoints and high-value user populations, and monitor for post-exploitation activity rather than expecting an easy compensating control.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Chrome's Navigation subsystem manages URL loads, redirects, and frame/iframe transitions across renderer and browser processes. CWE-416 (Use After Free) here means a navigation-related object can be freed and then referenced again - a dangling pointer - so an attacker who supplies a crafted HTML page can trigger a navigation sequence that frees the object and then reclaim the memory with attacker-controlled data, converting the UAF into an arbitrary read/write primitive suitable for code execution. The rendered severity (Chromium: Critical) and the CVSS scope change (S:C) indicate the primitive is not confined to the renderer: it can undermine the sandbox boundary that normally contains a compromised renderer, which is the most severe outcome class for a browser flaw. Because the vector carries PR:N, delivery requires no credentials or special Chrome configuration on default installs, while UI:R makes user interaction (opening the malicious page or rendering a malicious iframe/ad) mandatory. Weaponizing this class of bug is non-trivial - reliable exploitation typically demands heap grooming and may need chaining with a second primitive - which is consistent with the CISA SSVC assessment of Automatable: no. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* confirms the Chromium-based Google Chrome product line as the affected component, with EUVD listing the fixed threshold as 155.0.8059.39.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remote crafted HTML needs no auth (PR:N) but requires the victim to load it (UI:R); escaping the sandbox to run host code is a scope change (S:C) with full C/I/A impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Use after free in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)
Executive ViewAI
A critical memory-corruption flaw in Google Chrome's Navigation component lets an attacker who simply convinces a user to open a malicious web page run code that escapes the browser's sandbox and compromises the underlying workstation. Because Chrome is deployed broadly across the workforce, any unpatched endpoint represents a potential beachhead into the corporate network, making expedited browser update enforcement a leadership-level priority.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Use-after-free vulnerabilities occur when a program continues to access memory through a pointer after that memory has been deallocated.
Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
EUVD-2026-93795
GHSA-vfxq-33hh-qfrf
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