Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions [,146.0.7680.177)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-15870928
  • published1 Apr 2026
  • disclosed1 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-5288  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 146.0.7680.177 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the WebView process. An attacker can execute code outside of the intended sandbox by compromising the renderer process and leveraging a specially crafted HTML page. This is only exploitable if the attacker has already compromised the renderer process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1