CVE-2026-85051
Description
A flaw was found in Google Chrome. This type confusion vulnerability in the Compositing component allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the browser's security sandbox. Exploitation occurs when a user visits a specially crafted HTML page, leading to a compromise of the affected system.
Statement
This vulnerability is rated as Important severity because an unauthenticated remote attacker can execute code within the browser's sandbox environment by enticing a user to view a malicious webpage. Although the attack requires user interaction and code execution remains constrained by Chromium sandboxing, successful exploitation compromises the rendering engine and threatens session data integrity. Chromium is not shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux core repositories and is only available through community channels such as EPEL.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Other
Technical Impact: Varies by Context
When the product accesses the resource using an incompatible type, this could trigger logical errors because the resource does not have expected properties.
Availability,Integrity,Confidentiality
Technical Impact: Read Memory; Modify Memory; Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands; DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
If a memory buffer is accessed using an incompatible type, and the allocated buffer is smaller than the type that the code is attempting to access, then an attacker could read or write memory outside the bounds of the buffer, leading to a crash or possibly code execution.
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