Use after free in CameraCapture in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 150.0.7871.128 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape… (CVE-2026-15899)
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the CameraCapture component of Google Chrome on Mac systems prior to version 150.0.7871.128. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to potentially escape the browser's sandbox by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability is classified as critical due to its potential to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2026-15899 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the CameraCapture feature of Google Chrome on Mac platforms before version 150.0.7871.128. Exploitation requires user interaction (visiting a malicious HTML page) and could lead to a sandbox escape, allowing an attacker to execute code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 vector indicating network attack complexity is low, no privileges required, user interaction required, and impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability with high severity.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow a remote attacker to bypass Chrome's sandbox protections on Mac, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges. This compromises the security boundaries intended to isolate web content from the underlying system, posing a critical risk to affected users.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Google Chrome version 150.0.7871.128 and later. Users and administrators should update affected Chrome installations on Mac to this version or newer to remediate the vulnerability. No additional vendor advisory content is provided, so patch status is inferred from the version information in the description.
Use after free in CameraCapture in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 150.0.7871.128 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape… (CVE-2026-15899)
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the CameraCapture component of Google Chrome on Mac systems prior to version 150.0.7871.128. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to potentially escape the browser's sandbox by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability is classified as critical due to its potential to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
CVSS v3.1
Affected software
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Weaknesses
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-15899 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the CameraCapture feature of Google Chrome on Mac platforms before version 150.0.7871.128. Exploitation requires user interaction (visiting a malicious HTML page) and could lead to a sandbox escape, allowing an attacker to execute code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 vector indicating network attack complexity is low, no privileges required, user interaction required, and impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability with high severity.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow a remote attacker to bypass Chrome's sandbox protections on Mac, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges. This compromises the security boundaries intended to isolate web content from the underlying system, posing a critical risk to affected users.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Google Chrome version 150.0.7871.128 and later. Users and administrators should update affected Chrome installations on Mac to this version or newer to remediate the vulnerability. No additional vendor advisory content is provided, so patch status is inferred from the version information in the description.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- GHSA-w672-5q29-2fg6
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.4.0
- Aliases
- ["CVE-2026-15899"]
- Ecosystems
- []
- Database Specific Severity
- CRITICAL
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a6151289c2644c7f8da650e
Added to database: 07/22/2026, 23:24:24 UTC
Last enriched: 07/22/2026, 23:59:19 UTC
Last updated: 07/26/2026, 00:51:52 UTC
Views: 15
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