San Francisco: Google has issued a security update for the Chrome web browser to address the third zero-day vulnerability exploited by hackers this year. "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-3079 exists in the wild," Google said in a blog post. The company has not released details about the exploit and how it was used in attacks, instead focusing on the severity and type of flaw.
"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," the company said. According to BleepingComputer, CVE-2023-3079 is a high-severity vulnerability discovered on June 1, 2023, by Google researcher Clement Lecigne. It is a type of confusion in V8, Chrome's JavaScript engine tasked with executing code within the browser.
