Heap corruption via Profiles use-after-free
Published Mar 5, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026
Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome before 134.0.6998.35 allows attackers to corrupt heap memory through a crafted HTML page. The public Chromium issue is access-restricted, so Google has not disclosed which Profiles object is freed or what operation later reuses its stale reference. Exploitation requires a user to install a malicious extension and then encounter the crafted page; the published consequence is limited to heap corruption.
Summary
What happened
Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome before 134.0.6998.35 allows attackers to corrupt heap memory through a crafted HTML page. The public Chromium issue is access-restricted, so Google has not disclosed which Profiles object is freed or what operation later reuses its stale reference. Exploitation requires a user to install a malicious extension and then encounter the crafted page; the published consequence is limited to heap corruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-1916
- Published
- Mar 5, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Google Cloud
- Product
- Google Chrome
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 5, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=134.0.6998.35 <134.0.6998.35
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