Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild.
The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in CSS. Security researcher Shaheen Fazim has been credited with discovering and reporting the shortcoming on February 11, 2026.
”Use after free in CSS in Google Chrome prior to 145.0.7632.75 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page,” according to a description of the flaw in the NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
Google did not disclose any details about how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, by whom, or who may have been targeted, but it acknowledged that ”an exploit for CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild.”
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