Google Issues an Urgent Chrome Update to Address Active Exploit
Google, a digital behemoth with headquarters in Mountain View, has issued an urgent Chrome upgrade after its Threat Analysis Group found a zero-day vulnerability in the browser that is used by 3 billion people worldwide. Coded as CVE-2025-5419, the vulnerability is known to be exploited in real-world assaults and involves a bug in Chrome’s V8 engine.
Emergency Security Patch Released
With a new 21-day emergency upgrade deadline for Chrome users, it was republished on June 5.
The primary weakness is CVE-2025-5419
Google issued an urgent Chrome update on Tuesday, alerting users to the fact that attackers had exploited a flaw that its Threat Analysis Group found. Because of how serious the risk is, Google also acknowledged that the problem “was mitigated on 2025-05-28 by a configuration change” that was pushed out to all platforms prior to this update.
All information on the vulnerability will “be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix,” according to Google, which also states that it “is aware that an exploit for CVE-2025-5419 exists in the wild.” If the flaw is present in a third-party library that other projects rely on in a similar way but haven’t yet resolved, we will also keep the restrictions in place.
Broader Impact – Not Just Chrome
An out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability in V8 is known as CVE-2025-5419. This kind of serious memory issue is usually discovered and resolved on the most widely used browser in the world. Even though it’s only classified as high severity, the fact that attacks have been verified to be occurring makes the repair essential; you don’t want to expose your browser to danger.
U.S. Federal Mandate
Following a separate assault warning, the U.S. government has already ordered federal employees to update Chrome by Thursday or cease using the browser. Since then, two high-severity fixes have been included in another release. This most recent upgrade and warning will undoubtedly lead CISA to implement a 21-day update obligation as well.
This emergency release includes a second patch for CVE-2025-5068, a memory problem that was discovered by an outside researcher and is known as a “use after free in Blink.”
Why It Matters
According to NIST, CVE-2025-5419 “allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page” and is applicable to Chromium. It is also suggested that other browsers will also receive emergency updates for this vulnerability.
Federal employees now have 21 days to update or cease using browsers, according to America’s cyber defense organization. This is valid through June 26 and was released on June 5. CISA’s mission is to assist “every organization better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity,” even if the deadline is only required for federal employees.
Summary
As per normal, your browser ought to display a notification indicating that the update has been downloaded. To make sure it works completely, you must restart Chrome. Unless you choose not to, all of your regular tabs will reopen after that. However, since your Incognito tabs won’t reopen, be sure to save any work or bookmark any URLs you wish to view later.
