Google fixes 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in Chrome

Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities.

Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003, actively exploited in attacks in the wild.

Google fixed a total of seven vulnerabilities with the latest release of the popular browser.

CVE-2021-38000 is an insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents, the flaw was reported by Clement Lecigne, Neel Mehta, and Maddie Stone of Google Threat Analysis Group on 2021-09-15.

CVE-2021-38003 is an Inappropriate implementation in V8 open-source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. This vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne from Google TAG and Samuel Groß from Google Project Zero on 2021-10-26

“Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 exist in the wild.” reads the security advisory published by Google.

The IT giant did not reveal the details of the attacks exploiting the above flaws.

Google already addressed a total of fifteenth zero-day vulnerabilities since the beginning of the year, below is the complete list:

The full list of zero-days patched this year is:

CVE-2021-21148 – February 4th, 2021
CVE-2021-21166 – March 2nd, 2021
CVE-2021-21193 – March 12th, 2021
CVE-2021-21220 – April 13th, 2021
CVE-2021-21224 – April 20th, 2021
CVE-2021-30551 – June 9th, 2021
CVE-2021-30554 – June 17th, 2021
CVE-2021-30554 – June 17th, 2021
CVE-2021-30563 – July 15th, 2021
CVE-2021-30632 & CVE-2021-30633 – Sept 13th, 2021
CVE-2021-37973 – Sept 24th, 2021
CVE-2021-37975 and CVE-2021-37976 – Oct, 13st, 2021
CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 – Oct, 28th 2021

Be sure to update your Chrome install to the latest 95.0.4638.69 version for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.