{"id":243846,"date":"2026-09-10T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chrome-v8-zeroday-exploited-in-the-wild-enables-code-execution-inside-sandbox"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:18:10","slug":"chrome-v8-zeroday-exploited-in-the-wild-enables-code-execution-inside-sandbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chrome-v8-zeroday-exploited-in-the-wild-enables-code-execution-inside-sandbox","title":{"rendered":"Chrome V8 ZeroDay Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chrome-v8-zeroday-exploited-in-the-wild-enables-code-execution-inside-sandbox2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut-of-bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.36 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page,\u201d reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/cve-2026-87491\" target=\"_blank\">description<\/a> of the flaw on the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD).<\/p>\n<p>Security researcher Jihyeon Jeong of Compsec Lab, Seoul National University, has been acknowledged for discovering and reporting the flaw on August 6, 2026. The researcher received a $2,500 bug bounty reward for responsible disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Google acknowledged it is \u201caware that an exploit for CVE-2026\u201387491 exists in the wild,\u201d but has not disclosed any additional specific information related to how it\u2019s being weaponized in real-world attacks and who is behind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOut-of-bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.36 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page,\u201d reads a description of the flaw on the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Security researcher Jihyeon Jeong of Compsec Lab, Seoul National University, has been acknowledged for discovering and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}