Google fixed the third Chrome zero-day of 2023

Google released security updates to address a high-severity zero-day flaw in the Chrome web browser that it actively exploited in the wild.

Google released security updates to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3079, in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerability is a type confusion issue that resides in the V8 JavaScript engine. The IT giant is aware that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.

The vulnerability was discovered by Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which is the team at Google that monitors the activity of nation-state actors.

The vulnerability has reported on June 1, 2023, it is likely that the flaw was exploited as part of an exploit used by a state-sponsored APT group.

Google did not disclose details of the attacks exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2023-3079.

“Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-3079 exists in the wild.” reads the advisory published by the company. “The Stable and extended stable channels has been updated to 114.0.5735.106 for Mac and Linux and 114.0.5735.110 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.”

CVE-2023-3079 is the third actively exploited zero-day in Chrome addressed by Google in 2023, the other ones are:

CVE-2023-2033 (CVSS score: 8.8) – Type Confusion in V8
CVE-2023-2136 (CVSS score: 9.6) – Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library

All the above issues were reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group.

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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”.