Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2024
Google released an emergency security update to address a Chrome zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7971, that is actively exploited.
The vulnerability is a type confusion issue that resides in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.
“Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-7971 exists in the wild.” reads the advisory published by the company that did not share details about the attacks exploiting the issue. “Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.”.
“We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.”
Security researchers with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) reported the flaw to Google.
Google addressed the vulnerability with the release of 128.0.6613.84/.85 for Windows/macOS systems and version 128.0.6613.84 Linux. The company will release versions for all users in the Stable Desktop channel over the coming weeks.
Below is the list of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser that have been fixed this year:
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