Sandbox escape via Skia use-after-free
Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026
Use-after-free in Skia in Google Chrome before 151.0.7922.72 allows remote attackers to escape the browser sandbox via crafted HTML. Skia accesses an object after its lifetime has ended, but Google keeps the issue restricted and does not identify the affected function or lifetime sequence. Exploitation requires interaction with crafted HTML and prior renderer-process compromise; the flaw supplies the sandbox-escape stage, not the renderer compromise.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Skia in Google Chrome before 151.0.7922.72 allows remote attackers to escape the browser sandbox via crafted HTML. Skia accesses an object after its lifetime has ended, but Google keeps the issue restricted and does not identify the affected function or lifetime sequence. Exploitation requires interaction with crafted HTML and prior renderer-process compromise; the flaw supplies the sandbox-escape stage, not the renderer compromise.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-17653
- Published
- Jul 30, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- Vendor
- Go standard library
- Product
- Google Chrome
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 30, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 30, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=151.0.7922.72 <151.0.7922.72
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