Security News > 2023 > September > Google fixes fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2023
Google has patched the fifth Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year in emergency security updates released today.
Today, Google TAG's Maddie Stone revealed that the CVE-2023-5217 zero-day vulnerability was exploited to install spyware.
With Citizen Lab researchers, Google TAG also disclosed on Friday that three zero-days patched by Apple last Thursday were used to install Cytrox's Predator spyware between May and September 2023.
Even though Google said today that the CVE-2023-5217 zero-day had been exploited in attacks, the company has yet to share more information regarding these incidents.
Google fixed another zero-day exploited in the wild two weeks ago, the fourth one since the start of the year.
Google fixes another Chrome zero-day bug exploited in attacks.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-28 | CVE-2023-5217 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 8.8 |