An object lifecycle issue in Blink could lead to a use after free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attac…

published 2019-01-09 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-9210

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits: 0; none known

An object lifecycle issue in Blink could lead to a use after free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Google Chrome 69.0.3497.81

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Exploit prediction

1.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-416 Use After Free

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-17457
NVD CVE-2018-17457

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