Google Fixes Two Chrome Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild Affecting Skia and V8

Google Fixes Two Chrome Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild Affecting Skia and V8

By The Hacker News
Publication Date: 2026-03-13 09:17:00

Ravie LakshmananMar 13, 2026Browser Security / Vulnerability

Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild.

The list of vulnerabilities is as follows –

  • CVE-2026-3909 (CVSS score: 8.8) – An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Skia 2D graphics library that allows a remote attacker to perform out-of-bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page.
  • CVE-2026-3910 (CVSS score: 8.8) – An inappropriate implementation vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Both vulnerabilities were discovered and reported by Google itself on March 10, 2026. As is customary in these cases, no details are available about how the issues are being abused in the wild and who is behind the efforts. This is done so as to prevent other threat actors from exploiting the…