Detections
Analytics
CVE-2026-7940
high
Description
Use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
References
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/493631402
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html