Researchers said this was the 10th zero-day exploit that Google had patched this year.
Google announced fixes for 11 different bugs in Chrome on Monday, including two zero-days currently being exploited in the wild. Google listed all 11 of the fixes as well as the researchers who discovered them and the bounties handed out. But the two that caused the most stir were CVE-2021-30632 and CVE-2021-30633. “Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2021-30632 and CVE-2021-30633 exist in the wild,” Google explained. The two vulnerabilities were the only ones that were listed as being submitted anonymously on September 8. Google added that CVE-2021-30632 related to an “out of bounds write in V8” and CVE-2021-30633 concerned a “use after free in Indexed DB API.
