CVE-2026-7997

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Updater in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Analyzed - chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Published

2026-05-06

Last modified

2026-10-26

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Chrome (Google)

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://issues.chromium.org/issues/487960705