Google has released a security update to patch a newly discovered zero-day in Chrome and the company warned an exploit exists in the wild.<\/p>\n
The update, published on February 13, was accompanied by an advisory on CVE-2026-2441<\/a>, a high severity security vulnerability in Google Chrome for desktop on Windows, Mac and Linux.<\/p>\n As detailed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database<\/a> (NVD), the bug originated from an issue in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.<\/p>\n Google has not provided specific details about CVE-2026-2441 and said, “Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix.”<\/p>\n The tech giant also confirmed that it “is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild.”<\/p>\n Discovery of the vulnerability was credited to security researcher, Shaheen Fazim, who reported it on February 11. Google released the security update just two days later.<\/p>\n New security vulnerabilities regularly emerge in browsers. During 2025 Google released eight emergency patches<\/a> to protect Chrome against new exploits which were actively being abused by attackers.<\/p>\n While security patches to protect against new vulnerabilities are often quickly released, if left unpatched<\/a> they provide attackers with a commonly exploited point of entry for cyber-attacks against the enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n Image credit: <\/em>Thaspol Sangsee \/ Shutterstock.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google has released a security update to patch a newly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--infosecurity-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuoya.nuoyayasuo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}