CVE-2026-7353: Heap buffer overflow in Google Chrome
Heap buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.138 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2026-7353 is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the Skia graphics library used by Google Chrome before version 147.0.7727.138. An attacker who has compromised the renderer process could exploit this flaw via a crafted HTML page to perform a sandbox escape, potentially gaining higher privileges or executing arbitrary code outside the sandbox. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.3, indicating high severity with network attack vector, high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and requiring user interaction.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow an attacker with control over the renderer process to escape the Chrome sandbox, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges. This compromises the browser's security isolation mechanisms, increasing risk to the host system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There are no reports of active exploitation in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Google Chrome version 147.0.7727.138 and later. Users and administrators should update to this version or newer to remediate the vulnerability. The vendor advisory linked (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html) provides official update details. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor.
CVE-2026-7353: Heap buffer overflow in Google Chrome
Description
Heap buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.138 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
CVSS v3.1
Score 8.3high
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-7353 is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the Skia graphics library used by Google Chrome before version 147.0.7727.138. An attacker who has compromised the renderer process could exploit this flaw via a crafted HTML page to perform a sandbox escape, potentially gaining higher privileges or executing arbitrary code outside the sandbox. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.3, indicating high severity with network attack vector, high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and requiring user interaction.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow an attacker with control over the renderer process to escape the Chrome sandbox, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges. This compromises the browser's security isolation mechanisms, increasing risk to the host system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There are no reports of active exploitation in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Google Chrome version 147.0.7727.138 and later. Users and administrators should update to this version or newer to remediate the vulnerability. The vendor advisory linked (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html) provides official update details. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Chrome
- Date Reserved
- 2026-04-28T20:02:44.629Z
- Cvss Version
- null
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html","vendor":"Google"}]
Threat ID: 69f13d76cbff5d8610e355cb
Added to database: 4/28/2026, 11:06:30 PM
Last enriched: 5/6/2026, 2:09:55 AM
Last updated: 6/13/2026, 11:55:32 AM
Views: 66
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