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Google Chrome Accessibility Use-After-Free Vulnerability Allowing Privilege Escalation

Vulnerability

A use-after-free vulnerability has been identified in the Accessibility component of Google Chrome. This issue affects versions prior to 148.0.7778.168. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker who has compromised the renderer process to escalate privileges by using a crafted HTML page.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized privilege escalation within the browser.

Remediation

Users can update to Google Chrome version 148.0.7778.168 or later to address this vulnerability.

Added: May 14, 2026, 8:43 PM
Updated: May 14, 2026, 8:43 PM

Vulnerability Rating

Custom Algorithm
spread
8.4
impact
7.5
exploitability
3.6
remediation
7.7
relevance
8.3
threat
0.0
urgency
2.9
incentive
0.0

Our algorithm analyzes dozens of metrics to generate these 8 key vulnerability categories, which are then combined to calculate the overall risk score.