CVE-2026-79012

Use after free in Safebrowsing in Google Chrome on on Mac prior to 152.0.7977.65 allowed a remote attacker leveraging social engineering to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.6 Critical

Status

Analyzed - chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Published

2026-08-25

Last modified

2026-08-27

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

• Chrome (Google)

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0256176589.html
• https://issues.chromium.org/issues/523704817