CVE-2026-13968 Code injection in Chrome

What is CVE-2026-13968?

CVE-2026-13968 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 30 Jun 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-13968?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2026-13968?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2026-13968 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-13968 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-13968, ECHO-fd16-8743-9645, GHSA-vw9m-cqmx-vwfc, MINI-7vf5-px84-4fv4.