Chrome’s zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year


Google has fixed its fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, and this one earned its finder a $55,000 bounty.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-11645, is an out-of-bounds memory access bug in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Google confirmed that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, but has disclosed little beyond the bare technical details.

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Source:  The Register


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