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Google Chrome Use-After-Free Vulnerability in PDFium Allowing Heap Corruption via Crafted PDF

Vulnerability

A use-after-free vulnerability has been identified in the PDFium library used by Google Chrome. This issue affects Chrome versions prior to 148.0.7778.216. The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption by sending a specially crafted PDF file.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to heap corruption, which is often a precursor to more severe memory corruption vulnerabilities, such as arbitrary code execution.

Remediation

Users can update to Google Chrome version 148.0.7778.216 or later to address this vulnerability.

Added: May 28, 2026, 11:45 PM
Updated: May 28, 2026, 11:45 PM

Vulnerability Rating

Custom Algorithm
spread
8.4
impact
7.5
exploitability
3.6
remediation
7.7
relevance
9.7
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.