Security researcher Jose Pino has discovered a security vulnerability in all Chromium-based browsers that are based on Chromium versions up to 143.0.7483.0, which includes Chrome, Edge, and Opera, but also Vivaldi, Arc, and Brave. In other words, most PCs on the planet are affected by the vulnerability, which Pino has named Brash because Chrome and Chromium-based browsers dominate desktops and mobile devices.

The Brash vulnerability exists in Blink, the rendering engine of Google’s Chromium. According to Pino, the vulnerability “allows any Chromium browser to collapse in 15 to 60 seconds by exploiting an architectural flaw in how certain DOM operations are managed.”

Pino continues (bolded text is his emphasis):

“The attack vector originates from the complete absence of rate limiti

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