Use-after-free in Dawn in Google Chrome
CVE-2026-9874 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Dawn component of Google Chrome affecting versions prior to 148.0.7778.216. The available source material identifies the bug class and affected component but does not provide function-level or root-cause details. Google states that a remote attacker could potentially trigger the flaw by convincing a victim to load a crafted HTML page. Based on the vendor description, exploitation of the memory-safety flaw in Dawn could corrupt object lifetime/state in a way that may be leveraged beyond the renderer boundary, resulting in a potential sandbox escape.
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A use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome's Dawn component that could contribute to sandbox escape, remote code execution, or data corruption via a malicious page.
A critical use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome's Dawn component.
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