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Check Your Motor Oil Before Turbocharging: CVE-2026-7899, When V8's Optimization Engine Builds Up Carbon

Summary

NebuSec details CVE-2026-7899: a Turboshaft Wasm load-elimination flaw where a stale replacement corrupts array lengths into fakeobj, yielding Chrome renderer RCE — a $55,000 Chrome VRP win.

Why it matters

This research reveals deep compiler-level optimization pitfalls in modern JIT/WASM engines that lead to renderer sandbox escapes.
Vendor
Google
Product
Chrome V8 JavaScript/WebAssembly engine
CVSS
8.8
Published
Collected

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