CVE-2026-6298: Skia Heap Overflow in Chrome <147.0.7727.101 (Critical)
CVE-2026-6298 Published on April 15, 2026
Heap buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.101 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-6298 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
Products Associated with CVE-2026-6298
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Affected Versions
Google Chrome:- Version 147.0.7727.101 and below 147.0.7727.101 is affected.