Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to crafted HTML page
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DeliveryCompromise sandboxed renderer process
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ExploitTrigger use-after-free in Metrics component
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ExecutionEscape Chrome sandbox
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ImpactExecute arbitrary code on host
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
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 that the attacker has ALREADY compromised Chrome's sandboxed renderer process (typically via a separate renderer vulnerability) - this flaw is a sandbox-escape primitive, not an initial-access bug. The victim must then load attacker-controlled crafted HTML (UI:R) that drives the use-after-free in the Metrics component. Limiting factors: the renderer-compromise prerequisite, the required user interaction (visiting/loading the malicious page), High attack complexity (AC:H) reflecting the need to win a use-after-free race and defeat sandbox mitigations, and that users on versions at or above 155.0.8059.39 are not affected. No non-default configuration is described; the condition is the chained renderer compromise rather than a specific product setting. |
| Impact | Signals point to a patch-promptly-but-not-emergency posture. The CVSS 3.1 score is 8.3 (High) with S:C C:H/I:H/A:H reflecting a sandbox escape to full-host code execution, but it is tempered by AC:H and, critically, UI:R plus the description's requirement that the attacker must ALREADY have compromised the renderer process - this is a second-stage sandbox-escape primitive, not a standalone remote exploit. CISA's SSVC framework aligns with a lower urgency: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=total; so despite 'total' impact, there is no observed exploitation and the attack is not automatable. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public POC identified in the input, so this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' EPSS is NOT provided in the input, so exploitation-probability cannot be weighed - this is a data gap. Note the apparent tension flagged by the vendor: the CVSS vector encodes PR:N (unauthenticated) yet the description requires a pre-compromised renderer, meaning realistic exploitation is chained and conditional rather than trivially remote - verify how the vendor intends PR:N to be read. Net: a widely deployed product (Chrome) with a serious impact ceiling, but gated behind a renderer-compromise prerequisite and no evidence of in-the-wild use, so prioritize via normal browser patch cadence rather than emergency response. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has already gained code execution inside Chrome's sandboxed renderer (via a separate renderer bug) lures or keeps a victim on a crafted HTML page that triggers the use-after-free in the Metrics component. Exploiting the freed object lets the attacker break out of the renderer sandbox and run arbitrary code with the browser process's privileges on the host. No public exploit code is identified in the provided data, and attack complexity is High. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026
A use-after-free in Chrome's Metrics component (CWE-416) lets an attacker who has already compromised a sandboxed renderer process execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox - a sandbox-escape primitive rather than an initial-access bug. Only users running Chrome versions below 155.0.8059.39 are affected; the flaw is unauthenticated from the network perspective (PR:N) but requires the victim to load attacker-controlled crafted HTML (UI:R) and carries High attack complexity (AC:H) because the attacker must win a use-after-free race and defeat sandbox mitigations. Google has released a fix in Chrome 155.0.8059.39, no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, CISA SSVC records Exploitation: none, and the overall posture is patch-promptly-but-not-emergency rather than urgent.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Google Chrome to 155.0.8059.39 or later - the vendor-released patch for this issue - and verify the installed version via chrome://version or your endpoint management tooling; the stable channel advisory is at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_086471744.html. Because the bug is a sandbox-escape primitive that presupposes an already-compromised renderer, patching removes the escape path but does not by itself remove the need to fix whatever renderer bug an attacker would chain in front of it, so treat this update as part of a broader browser-patching cadence rather than a standalone fix. Where immediate upgrade is impractical, narrowing exposure means reducing the attack surface that supplies the required user interaction - restrict or disable untrusted web content, block known-bad domains at the proxy, and shorten the interval between browser restarts - though none of these substitutes for the patch and each carries usability trade-offs. Enabling Chrome's site isolation and sandbox hardening flags offers no additional protection here, since the flaw operates after the sandbox has already been breached at the renderer level. Track the Chromium issue at https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565797213 for any upstream follow-up.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability is a use-after-free (CWE-416) in the Metrics subsystem of Google Chrome, the component responsible for collecting and reporting browser telemetry and histogram data. In a use-after-free, a heap object is freed while a stale pointer to it still exists; subsequent dereference of that pointer lets an attacker redirect execution or corrupt adjacent memory. Because the bug lives in browser-process code that is out of reach of the renderer sandbox, exploiting it converts a compromised renderer into code execution in the more privileged browser process context, which is why the CVSS vector assigns Scope:Changed (S:C) and High confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Exploitation is gated by two prerequisites inherent to the design: the attacker must first achieve renderer compromise through some separate vulnerability, and the victim must then load crafted HTML that triggers the dangling-reference path. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H, 8.3) reflects a network-reachable attack with High complexity and a required user action, consistent with Chromium's own 'High' security severity rating. The affected CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* is broad, but EUVD narrows the actual affected range to Chrome releases before 155.0.8059.39.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
AV:N and UI:R because exploitation goes through a crafted web page; AC:H for the use-after-free race plus renderer-compromise prerequisite; S:C and C/I/A:H because the sandbox escape yields host-level code execution.
Primary rating from Vendor (Chrome).
CVSS VectorVendor: Chrome
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
Use after free in Metrics in Google Chrome prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Executive ViewAI
Organizations running Google Chrome versions below 155.0.8059.39 face a high-severity sandbox-escape flaw that could let an attacker with an existing renderer compromise break out and execute code across the host. While exploitation requires a pre-existing foothold and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, successful abuse could lead to broader endpoint compromise and data exposure. A vendor patch is available, so the priority is timely remediation rather than crisis response.
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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-2026-93836
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