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This has been a nightmare week for Google and its more than 2 billion desktop Chrome users. The US government has now added a third serious zero-day security threat to its central catalog of Chrome vulnerabilities that are known to be behind active attacks.Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto
All three vulnerabilities have now been added to CISA—the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. This catalog lists “vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild... Organizations should use the KEV catalog as an input to their vulnerability management prioritization framework.”
An out of bounds issue risks exposing sensitive information that should not be available while also risking a system or software crash that might allow an attacker to access that data., Google also warned that “an exploit for CVE-2024-4947 exists in the wild.” This was another memory issue, a “type confusion” vulnerability, which again exposes users to a crafted HTML page attack.
Most users will have Chrome set to update automatically, which it should always do for security updates of this kind anyway. But that’s not enough in itself. You should always fully close and relaunch Chrome to ensure the update has fully installed. US federal agencies have until 3rd, 6th and 10th June respectively to “apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.”So, what to make of this nightmare week for Google and its vast numbers of Chrome users. It’s no surprise that Google is hit so many times, it’s a complex platform and it’s a honeypot for attacks given the ubiquity of its desktop install base.
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