Google's Swift Response to Chrome's High-Severity Zero-Day Vulnerability

In a swift response to a security threat, Google has released an update to fix a new high-severity zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3079, is a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine.

The vulnerability report can be found on NIST here.

The issue was reported by Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on June 1, 2023. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Google has acknowledged the existence of an exploit for CVE-2023-3079 in the wild, making it the third actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Chrome that Google has addressed since the beginning of the year.

Users are advised to upgrade to specific versions of Chrome to mitigate potential threats. Users of Chromium-based browsers like Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi should also apply the fixes when available.