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Use-after-free in Google Chrome Views on Windows

IdentifiersCVE-2026-12035CWE-416· Use After Free

CVE-2026-12035 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the Views component of Google Chrome on Windows prior to version 149.0.7827.115. According to the provided content, a remote attacker could trigger the flaw by causing a target to load a crafted HTML page, leading to heap corruption. The vulnerable condition is described only at the component level as a use-after-free in Views; no specific function or code path is provided in the available material.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation could allow a remote attacker to induce heap corruption in the browser process via crafted web content. Depending on exploit reliability and surrounding mitigations, this could result in browser compromise, including arbitrary code execution in the context of the affected Chrome process. The broader Chromium advisory context also notes that Chrome vulnerabilities in this release could lead to arbitrary code execution, denial of service, or information disclosure, but for this specific CVE the provided content specifically attributes remote heap corruption potential.

Mitigation

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No specific workaround or temporary mitigation is provided in the supplied content. Until patched, reduce exposure by limiting use of untrusted web content, restricting browser use in high-risk workflows, and applying standard browser hardening controls, but the primary mitigation is to install the vendor update.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Google Chrome on Windows to version 149.0.7827.115 or later. For Chromium-based packages, apply the vendor or distribution security update that incorporates the upstream fix; the provided Debian advisory references chromium 149.0.7827.114-1~deb12u1 for Debian bookworm and 149.0.7827.114-1~deb13u1 for Debian trixie as the patched package versions covering this release train.
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