CVE-2026-9987 Code injection in Chrome

What is CVE-2026-9987?

CVE-2026-9987 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 28 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 WebAppInstalls in Google Chrome on Android prior to 148.0.7778.216 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: High)

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-9987?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2026-9987?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2026-9987 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9987 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

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9987, ECHO-5f89-0611-b773, GHSA-3p35-rr8v-cfg2, MINI-7m3q-vcxc-w8wc.