Indian govt issues high severity warning to Google Chrome users. Here’s what you should do next

Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the cyber security watchdog under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), has issued a high severity alert for Google Chrome users, affecting users on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.

According to CERT-In, Google Chrome for desktop has been found to have multiple vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user’s system. The cybersecurity agency said that these vulnerabilities exist in Google Chrome due to a number of reasons, including initialised and insufficient data usage in dawn and out of bounds read in WebTransport.