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Google Alerts Chrome Users to Critical Security Vulnerability

4/4/2026

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Google LLC issued a security alert for Chrome users about a zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281, in the Dawn WebGPU component.
The vulnerability could corrupt data and allow attackers to execute malicious code.
Google LLC is rolling out a security update that addresses CVE-2026-5281 and 20 other vulnerabilities, and full deployment may take weeks.
This follows earlier alerts regarding high-severity CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910 that risk data integrity and system availability.

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Google LLC issued a security alert for Chrome users about a zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281, in the Dawn WebGPU component.
The vulnerability could corrupt data and allow attackers to execute malicious code.
Google LLC is rolling out a security update that addresses CVE-2026-5281 and 20 other vulnerabilities, and full deployment may take weeks.
This follows earlier alerts regarding high-severity CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910 that risk data integrity and system availability.