A new high severity vulnerability in Google Chrome has been discovered and we are aware that exploits exist in the wild. It is suggested to apply the recommendations below in order to prevent security incidents from happening.

 

The vulnerability has been listed as a type confusion in Google's Javascript engine V8 and  has been tracked as CVE-2021-21224. It affects Google Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux. Google released updates after proof-of-concept exploit code for the vulnerability was published by a researcher on April 14, as the flaw was addressed in the V8 source code but not integrated to the Chromium codebase and subsequently to Chrome.