Chrome emergency update confirmed
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Google has he suddenly warned that Chrome attacks are ongoing, issues an urgent update for all desktop users. “Google knows that an exploit for CVE-2025-13223 exists in the wild,” the company confirmed on Monday.
The vulnerability – a “type confusion in V8” – was discovered by Google’s threat analysis team last week. This correction has been expedited, underscoring its seriousness.
The update should download automatically, but it will restart your browser to make sure it installs and takes effect. Your regular tabs will reload, but your private “incognito” tabs will not. Make sure you save any open work.
Per NISTthis “Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome before 142.0.7444.175 allowed a remote attacker to exploit potential heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.” The vulnerability has been issued a high severity rating.
As always, Google also says “Access to bug details and links may remain restricted until the majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also maintain restrictions if the bug exists in a third-party library that other projects similarly depend on, but have not yet fixed.”
The update brings the Chrome stable channel to 142.0.7444.175/.176 for Windows and 142.0.7444.176 for Mac. For Linux it is 142.0.7444.175. While Google’s boilerplate says “to be released in the coming days/weeks”, you can expect the update today.
While Google Chrome zero days are a regular occurrence, Google gets huge credit for the speed with which fixes are developed and deployed. It goes without saying that all users should update their browsers as soon as they see the restart flag.
