CVE-2026-79052 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Aura UI framework in Google Chrome versions prior to 152.0.7977.65. A remote attacker can trigger the freed-object condition by causing a victim to load specially crafted HTML content, enabling arbitrary code execution outside the Chrome sandbox.
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A critical use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome's Aura user-interface framework.
Critical use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome addressed by Chrome 152.
A vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-79052 affecting Debian Linux releases 11.0 through 14.0, including Debian's Chromium package. The provided CVSS v3 vector indicates a network-reachable issue requiring user interaction, with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
A critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Aura component of Google Chrome before version 152.0.7977.65 that enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code outside Chrome's sandbox through a crafted HTML page.
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