Vulnerability · Published May 28, 2026 · Assigned by Chrome

CVE-2026-9981

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in Chrome from Google. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Inappropriate implementation in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.216 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.24qt6-qtwebengine6.11.1-r2ALPINE-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:12chromium148.0.7778.215-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:13chromium148.0.7778.215-1~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:14chromium148.0.7778.215-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:14libskia146.20260414~git.ef5f213+dfsg-5DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:12webkit2gtkno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.54.0-1~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:14webkit2gtkno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:12wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:13wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Debian:14wpewebkit2.54.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9981
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibskiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-9981
Ubuntu:26.10libskiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-9981

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Google Chrome 148.0.7778.216 – before 148.0.7778.216

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References