CVE-2026-9889
Published: 28 May 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-9889 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Google Chrome. Its CVSS base score is 8.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 11.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-33184
Vulnerability details
Out of bounds read and write in Dawn in Google Chrome on Android prior to 148.0.7778.216 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)
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Why these techniques?
Out-of-bounds read/write in Chrome renderer (Dawn) directly enables client-side exploitation for sandbox escape/privilege escalation via malicious HTML.
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Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.