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Use-after-free in Blink in Google Chrome

IdentifiersCVE-2026-11164CWE-416· Use After Free

CVE-2026-11164 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Blink rendering engine of Google Chrome affecting versions prior to 149.0.7827.53. According to the provided advisory text, a remote attacker can trigger the flaw by supplying a crafted HTML page. Successful exploitation allows arbitrary code execution within the Chrome browser sandbox. The issue is classified as CWE-416 and was assigned a Chromium security severity of Medium.

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ANALYST BRIEF

Impact, mitigation & remediation

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Impact

What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.

Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the Chrome sandbox. The provided CVSS v3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) indicates network-reachable exploitation with low attack complexity, no privileges required, and user interaction required, with potential high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the affected security context.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

No specific workaround or temporary mitigation was provided in the supplied content. In the absence of a patch, reducing exposure would require limiting use of untrusted web content, but the authoritative remediation in the provided advisories is to upgrade to a fixed version.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Google Chrome to version 149.0.7827.53 or later. For Debian chromium packages, upgrade to the vendor-fixed builds referenced in the advisory, including 149.0.7827.53-1~deb12u1 for bookworm and 149.0.7827.53-1~deb13u1 for trixie.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.

EXPOSURE SURFACE

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GoogleChromeapplication

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

3 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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Threat actor evidence

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Associated malware

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Detection signatures

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Vendor-by-vendor mapping

Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.

Social activity2

Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.

EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2026-11164
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11164
MITRE CWE · CWE-416
Use After Free
Vendor Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Permissions Required
issues.chromium.org/issues/502089411