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CVE-2026-5281

8.8, high Known exploited

Google Dawn Use-After-Free Vulnerability

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CVSS
8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
0.7% higher than 52.3% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
1 Apr 20266 months ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 1 Apr 2026. US federal agencies had to remediate by 15 Apr 2026, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.178 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Details

Vendor
Google
Product
Chrome
Weakness
CWE-416 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
24 Jul 2026
Assigner
chrome-cve-admin@google.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 3

Advisories 1

Other references 2

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other Google CVEs

Every Google CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2026-58704 Google Pixel Improper Authorization Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.6% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability KEV EPSS 49% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-11645 Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-3909 Google Skia Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-3910 Google Chromium V8 Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-2441 Google Chromium CSS Use-After-Free Vulnerability KEV EPSS 55% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2025-14174 Google Chromium Out of Bounds Memory Access Vulnerability KEV EPSS 22% 8.8, high

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CVE-2026-5281 is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities: attackers are already exploiting it.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.