Patch Now: Another Google Zero-Day Under Exploit in the Wild
Google has rolled an emergency patch for CVE-2024-4947, the third Chrome zero-day it's addressed in the past week.
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CVE is a global system of standardized identifiers for publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Each record, typically written as CVE-YYYY-NNNN, gives a vulnerability a stable reference and usually includes a description, affected products or versions, and links to advisories or fixes. The CVE Program coordinates the assignment and publication of records through authorized organizations, allowing researchers, vendors, security tools, and defenders to discuss the same flaw without relying on different names.
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Google has rolled an emergency patch for CVE-2024-4947, the third Chrome zero-day it's addressed in the past week.
CVE-2024-30051, under active exploit, is the most concerning out of this month's Patch Tuesday offerings, and already being abused by several QakBot actors.
Exploit code is circulating for CVE-2024-4761, disclosed less than a week after a similar security vulnerability was disclosed as being used in the wild.
Google on Monday shipped emergency fixes to address a new zero-day flaw in the Chrome web browser that has come under active exploitation in the wild