🛡️ CVE-2026-4676 — chrome

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.165 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-4676 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2026-4676 is recorded against 1 package.

  • chrome (fixed in 146.0.7680.164)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com
issues.chromium.org

CVE-2026-4676 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-24
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
chrome — 146.0.7680.164

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