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Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox
Google on Thursday released updates to patch 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild.
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Google released updates on Thursday that fix 230 security flaws, among them a medium‑severity, out‑of‑bounds bug in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine (CVE‑2026‑87491) that is currently being exploited in the wild to execute code inside the browser sandbox. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVE identifier but no CVSS score is provided. The patch addresses the active exploitation of this zero‑day.
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