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#5 The Hacker News general September 09, 2026 at 09:11 UTC

Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Google's Chrome 153 release patches CVE-2026-87491, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that has been confirmed exploited in the wild — marking the seventh Chrome zero-day of 2026. The update bundles 230 total security fixes, and the V8 flaw enables code execution inside the browser sandbox. Users and enterprise administrators should prioritize updating Chrome immediately given the active exploitation.

Relevance score: 90.0/100

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