CVE-2026-7989 Memory corruption in Chrome

What is CVE-2026-7989?

CVE-2026-7989 is a medium-severity memory corruption 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

Insufficient data validation in DataTransfer in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to perform arbitrary read/write via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-7989?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2026-7989?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2026-7989 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-7989 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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-7989, ECHO-595b-473c-c3cc, GHSA-9jcr-35p3-pjwq, MINI-jhwq-mhm6-hcqm.