CVE-2026-22166
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
A web page that contains unusual WebGPU content loaded into the GPU GLES render process and can trigger write UAF crash in the GPU GLES user-space shared library. On certain platforms, when the process executing graphics workload has system privileges this could enable subsequent exploit on the system.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.1
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
367425dc-4d06-4041-9650-c2dc6aaa27ce
Published
2026-05-01 16:16:29.563000
Last modified
2026-10-26 21:10:00.170000
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