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Google Patches Several Chrome Flaws That Can Be Exploited via Malicious Extensions

August 4, 2021

Researchers Leecraso and Guang Gong of the 360 Alpha Lab team at Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 have earned $20,000 for a high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-30590. Google described the issue as a heap buffer overflow in Bookmarks.

Leecraso told SecurityWeek that CVE-2021-30590 is a sandbox escape vulnerability that can be “exploited in combination with an extension or a compromised renderer.” An attacker can leverage the flaw to achieve remote code execution outside Chrome’s sandbox.

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