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Use-after-free in Media in Google Chrome on Windows

IdentifiersCVE-2026-11680CWE-416· Use After Free

CVE-2026-11680 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the Media component of Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.103. The flaw can be triggered by a remote attacker through a crafted HTML page, leading to memory corruption from dereferencing freed objects in Chrome's media handling code. According to the provided sources, successful exploitation allows arbitrary code execution inside the Chrome sandbox. The issue is rated High by Chromium and is associated with CVSS v3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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Impact, mitigation & remediation

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the Chrome sandbox on affected Windows systems. The provided CVSS metrics indicate high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within that sandboxed context. Because exploitation is achieved via malicious web content, this can be used to compromise the browser renderer or related sandboxed process handling media content after user interaction.

Mitigation

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No specific temporary workaround is provided in the supplied content. Practical mitigation is to apply the vendor update promptly. Until patching is completed, reducing exposure to untrusted web content may lower risk, but this is not a vendor-stated fix.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Google Chrome on Windows to version 149.0.7827.103 or later. Where Chromium is consumed through downstream distributions, apply the vendor-provided fixed packages; the provided Debian advisory lists chromium 149.0.7827.102-1~deb12u1 for Debian oldstable (bookworm) and 149.0.7827.102-1~deb13u1 for Debian stable (trixie).
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

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

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Vendor-by-vendor mapping

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Social activity2

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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2026-11680
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11680
MITRE CWE · CWE-416
Use After Free
Vendor Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0153744567.html
Permissions Required
issues.chromium.org/issues/517004487