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Google fixes eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year
2024-05-24 09:30

Google has released a new emergency security update to address the eighth zero-day vulnerability in Chrome browser confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild.

CVE-2024-5274 is the eighth actively exploited vulnerability that Google fixed in Chrome since the beginning of the year, and the third this month.

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News URL

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-eighth-actively-exploited-chrome-zero-day-this-year/

Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2024-05-28 CVE-2024-5274 Type Confusion vulnerability in Google Chrome
Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.112 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.
network
low complexity
google CWE-843
8.8

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Google 141 995 4854 2783 1620 10252