Sandbox escape race in Safe Browsing in Google Chrome on Mac
CVE-2026-12022 is a high-severity race condition vulnerability in the Safe Browsing component of Google Chrome on macOS, affecting versions prior to 149.0.7827.115. According to the provided content, a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process can potentially exploit the race via a malicious file to escape Chrome’s sandbox. The issue is classified as a race condition and mapped to CWE-362. No further public detail about the specific vulnerable function or code path is available in the provided material.
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A race condition vulnerability in Safe Browsing in Google Chrome on Mac that could allow a remote attacker with a compromised renderer process to potentially escape the sandbox via a malicious file.
A high-severity race condition vulnerability in Chrome Safe Browsing.
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