Update Chrome now to protect against an actively exploited vulnerability
C Malwarebytes ·
Admiralty grading (A–F · 1–6)
Source reliability
- A Completely reliable
- B Usually reliable
- C Fairly reliable
- D Not usually reliable
- E Unreliable
- F Cannot be judged
Information credibility
- 1 Confirmed
- 2 Probably true
- 3 Possibly true
- 4 Doubtful
- 5 Improbable
- 6 Cannot be judged
NATO Admiralty (AJP-2.1) grades confidence, independent of the risk score. Cross-source corroboration isn't tracked for non-CVE news, so single-source items are capped at a lower credibility number; a low number does not imply low quality.
Key insight
Chrome 153.0.8010.36/.37 patches one actively exploited medium-severity vulnerability and five critical flaws, including four in WebGL, enabling remote code execution.
Description
The update patches one actively exploited vulnerability and five critical security flaws, four of which were found in the WebGL component (Web Graphics Library). Chrome's JavaScript engine may mishandle memory, allowing attackers to exploit specially crafted web pages to execute arbitrary code. Immediate update to Chrome 153.0.8010.36 (Linux) or 153.0.8010.36/.37 (Windows/Mac) is strongly recommended as the vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 45.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 15.00
- raw before weight
- 60.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
- consensus penalty
- -3.00
Path: operational
Consensus check
The pipeline self-checks before delivery. These rules lowered the score:
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- Consensus penalty:
- −3.0
- Total penalty:
- −3.0