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New Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-5281 Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2026-2441
Use-After-Free in Google Chromium CSS Rendering Exposes Chrome, Edge, Opera Users
8.855%KEVPoC
KEV
CVE-2026-3909
Out-of-Bounds Write in Google Chrome's Skia Rendering Engine
8.82%KEV
KEV
CVE-2026-3910
Out-of-Bounds Memory Flaw in Google Chrome V8 Allows Sandboxed Code Execution
8.83%KEV
KEV
CVE-2026-5281
Use-After-Free in Google Chrome's Dawn (WebGPU) Component Enables Arbitrary Code Execution
8.814%KEV
KEV

From the original article

2 min read at thehackernews.com

 Ravie Lakshmanan  Apr 01, 2026 Vulnerability / Browser Security Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a use-after-free bug in Dawn , an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard.

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