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Government issues high-risk warning for these Chrome users: All the details

CERT-In has issued a high security risk warning for select Chrome users. Here's what you should do right now.

May 18, 2025 / 10:04 IST
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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-severity warning for users of Google Chrome on desktop platforms, highlighting multiple security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on affected systems.

The vulnerability note, CIVN-2025-0099, was published on May 16, 2025, and applies to Google Chrome versions prior to 136.0.7103.113/.114 for Windows and Mac, and versions prior to 136.0.7103.113 for Linux.

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CERT-In warned that these flaws could lead to sensitive information disclosure or system instability if exploited. The agency stated that the vulnerabilities stem from insufficient policy enforcement in the browser’s Loader component and improper handling in Mojo, a component responsible for inter-process communication in Chrome.

According to the advisory, a remote attacker could exploit these issues by luring a user to a malicious web page. Successful exploitation could enable the attacker to execute code on the user’s machine, potentially compromising the entire system. One of the vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-4664, is already being actively exploited in the wild.