Skip to main content
Live Webinar with SANS (June 25)— Agentic CTI Automation for Fun & ProfitRegister Free
Mallory
Back to vulnerabilities
Unrated

Use-after-Free in Google Chrome Bluetooth on Mac

IdentifiersCVE-2026-13035CWE-416

CVE-2026-13035 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the Bluetooth component of Google Chrome on macOS. According to the provided content, affected versions are Chrome on Mac prior to 149.0.7827.197. The flaw can be triggered by a remote attacker via a malicious Bluetooth peripheral, leading to memory corruption consistent with a use-after-free condition. The vendor description states that successful exploitation may result in arbitrary code execution.

Share:
For your environment

Are you exposed to this one?

Mallory correlates every CVE against your assets, your vendors, and active adversary campaigns. Know which vulnerabilities matter for you, not just which ones are loud.

Start free trial
ANALYST BRIEF

Impact, mitigation & remediation

What it means. What to do now. Patch path, mitigations, and the assume-compromise checklist.

Impact

What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.

Successful exploitation may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected Chrome process on a vulnerable Mac system. Depending on runtime conditions, exploitation of the use-after-free could also cause browser instability or denial of service through process crash.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure by limiting or disabling use of untrusted Bluetooth peripherals with systems running vulnerable Chrome versions on macOS, and restrict physical/proximate access by unknown devices. Apply the vendor update as soon as possible, as no complete mitigation is provided in the supplied content.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Google Chrome on macOS to version 149.0.7827.197 or later. Google included this fix in the Chrome Stable channel update that moved Mac to 149.0.7827.196/197.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

No public exploits tracked yet. Mallory keeps watching.

VALID 0 / 0 TOTALView more in app

No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.

EXPOSURE SURFACE

Affected products & vendors

Products and vendors Mallory has correlated with this vulnerability. Open in Mallory to drill down to specific CPE configurations and version ranges.

VendorProductType
GoogleChromeapplication

Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.

ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

5 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

5 SOURCESView more in app
What this page doesn’t show

The version that knows your environment.

This page is what’s public. Mallory adds the parts that aren’t: which of your assets are affected, which adversaries are exploiting it right now, which detections to deploy, and what to do tonight.
Start free trial
Exposure mapping

Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.

Threat actor evidence

Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.

Associated malware

Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.

Detection signatures

YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.

Vendor-by-vendor mapping

Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.

Social activity2

Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.

EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2026-13035
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13035
MITRE CWE · CWE-416
cwe.mitre.org