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Google Publishes Exploit Code for Unfixed Chromium Vulnerability
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Ars Technica5/20/2026Tech4 min readUnited States

Google Publishes Exploit Code for Unfixed Chromium Vulnerability

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Google published exploit code for an unfixed 29-month-old Chromium vulnerability affecting Chrome, Edge, and other browsers, allowing attackers to create persistent connections for monitoring, proxying, and DDoS attacks.

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The vulnerability exploits the Browser Fetch API, allowing persistent connections for malicious activities.

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Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers... (rest of the article preserved verbatim with paragraph breaks)

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This article was originally published by Ars Technica.

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