CVE-2026-7990 Privilege escalation in Chrome

What is CVE-2026-7990?

CVE-2026-7990 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 6 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Updater in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-7990?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2026-7990?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2026-7990 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-7990 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-2026-7990, ECHO-cbab-d5a7-593d, GHSA-cm3m-44r2-vmp9, MINI-m7cg-w2jq-c3hc.