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Use After Free

CVE-2026-11115

High
7.3/10

Summary

Use after free in Updater in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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  • Published