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This post analyzes CVE-2026-2441, a high-severity Use After Free (UAF) vulnerability in Chrome's Blink CSS engine that allowed remote code execution inside a sandbox.
•The exploit involves @font-feature-values CSS parsing, which creates a CSSFontFeaturesValueMap with a flawed HashMap memory management in Chrome's Blink engine.
•Despite headlines calling it a "CSS exploit," the malicious part is JavaScript that exploits the memory bug — CSS itself is not the attack vector.
•The vulnerability affects Chromium-based browsers (Chrome before 145.0.7632.75, Edge before 145.0.3800.58, Brave before v1.87.188, Vivaldi before 7.8).
•Chrome's fix was to use a deep copy of the HashMap instead of a pointer, eliminating the possibility of referencing freed memory.
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Firefox avoided this class of bug by rewriting its CSS renderer in Rust, which handles memory management automatically; Chromium has begun adopting Rust since 2023 for similar safety reasons.
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