Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting chromium package, versions [,149.0.7827.155)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-17356573
  • published17 Jun 2026
  • disclosed17 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-12438  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 149.0.7827.155 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure via the WebView process. An attacker can escape the sandbox and execute code outside of the intended security boundaries by compromising the renderer process and delivering a specially crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1