The Indian government’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) recently flagged several vulnerabilities in Chrome and some Mozilla products. CERT-In highlighted that these vulnerabilities were providing hackers with access to all of the users’ data and even executing arbitrary codes by bypassing all security mechanisms.
The vulnerabilities in the said products marked as ‘high’ risk by CERT-In targeted Chrome OS versions prior to 96.0.4664.209.
The tech giant acknowledged the bugs and said that it fixed all the bugs. The company urged users to download the latest version of Chrome OS to stay protected from these bugs.
In addition, CERT-In flagged bugs in the Mozilla Firefox iOS version prior to 101, Mozilla Firefox Thunderbird version prior to 91.10, Mozilla Firefox ESR version prior to 91.10, and Mozilla Firefox version prior to 101.
As per CERT-In, these vulnerabilities lead attackers to deliver a denial of service attack on targeted systems. A denial-of-service (DoS) attack happens when users are unable to access information systems, devices, or other resources owing to hackers.