CVE-2026-7981 Information disclosure in Chrome

What is CVE-2026-7981?

CVE-2026-7981 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 6 May 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

Out of bounds read in Codecs in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-7981?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2026-7981?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2026-7981 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-7981 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome

• CVE-2022-4135 Google Chromium GPU Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16017 Google Chrome Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16010 Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-7981, ECHO-dde2-b936-33e7, GHSA-54v2-p6qp-4935, MINI-gvwp-r8pp-9qhv.