Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Google Chrome for macOS

CVE-2026-7997

What is CVE-2026-7997?

A vulnerability exists in Google Chrome on macOS that arises from insufficient validation of untrusted input in the Updater component. This flaw can potentially be exploited by a local attacker to achieve OS-level privilege escalation via a specially crafted malicious file. Users are urged to update to the latest version to mitigate potential security risks.

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