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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