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Emergency Chrome and Edge Patches Roll Out as CISA Sets June 26 Deadline

The patches fix an active V8 vulnerability threatening heap corruption across Chromium browsers

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Overview

  • Google deployed its emergency Chrome update on June 3 after mitigating the flaw with a configuration change on May 28
  • Microsoft released a corresponding Edge patch to address CVE-2025-5419 following Google’s advisory
  • CVE-2025-5419 is an out-of-bounds read/write in V8 that can enable remote heap-corruption exploits via crafted HTML pages
  • The emergency release also corrects CVE-2025-5068, a use-after-free memory bug in Blink disclosed by an external researcher
  • CISA has ordered all federal staff to install Chromium browser updates or stop using the software by June 26 to counter active exploits