Google’s AI discovers yet one more Chrome JavaScript vulnerability

Google has mounted a vulnerability in Chrome variations 141.0.7390.122/123 for Home windows and macOS and 141.0.7390.122 for Linux. In line with Google, the vulnerability is just not but being exploited within the wild.

Within the Chrome Releases weblog put up, Srinivas Sista names the mounted vulnerability, which was found every week in the past by Google Large Sleep. Google Large Sleep is an “AI” instrument based mostly on Gemini for detecting safety vulnerabilities. It’s designed to detect vulnerabilities independently with out human assist. Google describes this vulnerability (labeled CVE-2025-12036) as an implementation error within the V8 JavaScript engine and classifies it as excessive danger.

Chrome normally updates itself mechanically when a brand new model is offered. You may manually provoke the replace examine utilizing the menu merchandise Assist > About Google Chrome.

Google has additionally supplied Chrome for Android 141.0.7390.122, which fixes the identical vulnerabilities as within the desktop variations. The Prolonged Secure Channel for Home windows and macOS nonetheless comprises Chromium model 140.0.7339.249. Google plans to launch Chrome 142 on October twenty eighth. A small group of customers will obtain the brand new model this night.

Different Chromium-based browsers

The makers of different Chromium-based browsers will comply with swimsuit with updates. Microsoft Edge, Courageous, and Vivaldi are at present on the safety stage previous to this replace, in the meantime Vivaldi has already transformed its public beta model 7.7 (“Snapshot”) to Chromium 142.

As no newer Chromium model than final week’s is offered within the Prolonged Secure Channel, the CVE-2025-12036 vulnerability that was patched this week might be solely current in Chromium 141. In gentle of this, a Vivaldi replace additionally appears relatively unlikely this week.

Opera briefly decreased its backlog with Opera model 122 based mostly on Chromium model 138, which was launched on September eleventh and backported further safety patches. Since then, nevertheless, no vital progress has been made in direction of Chromium 142, which shall be launched subsequent week. The three-week-old beta model 123 makes use of Chromium 139.