Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions [,95.0.4638.54)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.83% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-15353782
  • published26 Feb 2026
  • disclosed24 Feb 2026
  • creditCassidy Kim

Introduced: 24 Feb 2026

CVE-2021-37993  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 95.0.4638.54 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via PdfAccessibilityTree::GetRenderAccessibilityIfEnabled in the PDF renderer component. An attacker can corrupt heap memory by serving a crafted HTML page that causes RenderAccessibility to delete PdfAccessibilityTree while GetRenderAccessibilityIfEnabled is still running.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1