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CVE-2025-12438: google chrome Use After Free

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2025-12438CGA-25g3-6wwq-hfmgCGA-r5f7-v957-5jq3
Published 10-11-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-12438 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Use After Free vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.26%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3
DSA-6046-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15687-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20076-1CGA-QPJP-VM6M-9XVW

Timeline

  1. 10-11-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Use after free in Ozone in Google Chrome on Linux and ChromeOS prior to 142.0.7444.59 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

17%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.25% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.26%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard1 product
  • chromium< 142.0.7444.59-r0
Debian1 product
  • chromium< 142.0.7444.59-1~deb12u1 | < 142.0.7444.59-1~deb13u1 | < 142.0.7444.59-1
Google1 product
  • chrome≥ 142.0.7444.59, < 142.0.7444.59 | < 142.0.7444.59
Wolfi1 product
  • chromium< 142.0.7444.59-r0

4 vendors · 4 products

References

3 links