Google fixes 151 security flaws in latest Chrome update.
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Google continues to regularly update Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser with 3.5 billion active users, and the latest release stands out for 151 reasons. That’s the number of security vulnerabilities that have been patched, with 22 of these carrying a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures severity rating of critical. Readers should note that these are vulnerabilities, not exploits, and that’s an important distinction. None of the vulnerabilities fixed by Google in the Chrome for Windows version 148.0.7778.216/217 update are known to have been used by attackers. They have, in fact, been discovered by security researchers working for Google itself and external bounty hunters. The update will be heading your way soon, but you can manually force the update to be on the safe side, and I will explain how in a moment.
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The critical CVE rating should be enough to reveal how serious these 22 vulnerabilities would be if an attacker were to actually exploit them before they could be fixed, but another clue is present in the bug bounty reward payments already confirmed by Google for just four of them, which comes to $102,000 in total. That breaks down to two payments of $43,000 for CVE-2026-9872 and CVE-2026-9873, $11,000 for CVE-2026-9874 and $5,000 for CVE-2026-9875. The bounty for one vulnerability, CVE-2026-9876, is flagged as yet to be determined. As for the remaining 17, these are ineligible for a reward payment as they were discovered by Google itself.
These are the 22 critical-rated vulnerabilities; the full list of all 151 security flaws can be found here.
While Google Chrome’s Srinivas Sista has advised that the 148.0.7778.216/217 security update is currently being rolled out, and this will be applied to your browser automatically, you can accelerate your browser security protection by manually installing it immediately as follows: Use the three-dot Chrome menu to select Help|About Google Chrome, and the update download and install process will begin. Once the installation is complete, Chrome will prompt you to restart to activate the protection.
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