CVE-2025-6192: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-6192) was discovered in Google Chrome versions prior to 137.0.7151.119. The vulnerability was identified as a Use-after-free issue in the Metrics component, which could allow remote attackers to exploit heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page. The issue was reported by security researcher Chaoyuan Peng (@ret2happy) on May 31, 2025, and was subsequently patched in Chrome version 137.0.7151.119 (Chrome Release).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-416 (Use After Free) and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (High) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction. The vulnerability can potentially lead to heap corruption, affecting the integrity of the browser's memory (NVD).

The vulnerability could allow attackers to potentially exploit heap corruption, which may lead to arbitrary code execution or program crashes. The high CVSS score indicates that successful exploitation could result in significant impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system (NVD).

Users are advised to update to Chrome version 137.0.7151.119 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. The update has been released for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms and will roll out over several days/weeks (Chrome Release).