Widely used desktop browser; RCE outside sandbox can affect many corporate endpoints and allow data theft or lateral movement across organizations.
CVE-2026-102304
Chrome use-after-free in Passwords allows remote code execution from a crafted HTML page
Is CVE-2026-102304 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-102304 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked.
How severe is CVE-2026-102304?
CVE-2026-102304 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.6. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-102304?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-102304. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-102304 affect?
CVE-2026-102304 affects Google Chrome (desktop) <154.0.8037.92, Windows, macOS, Linux. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-102304?
Update Chrome to 154.0.8037.92 or later immediately; avoid opening untrusted HTML.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Remote code execution outside Chrome sandbox via crafted HTML; attacker can run arbitrary code as user, steal data, and pivot.
Immediate action required
- affected< 154.0.8037.92
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.