The ‘Brash’ flaw not only affects all Chromium-based browsers and works by bombarding a little-known function.
A newly discovered flaw can crash a browser session in seconds.
The vulnerability affects browsers that use the open-source Chromium platform, including Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge, according to security researcher Jose Pino, who disclosed the threat this week. “It allows any Chromium browser to collapse in 15-60 seconds by exploiting an architectural flaw,” he says.
The so-called “Brash” attack targets Blink, the rendering engine in Chromium that displays web pages. Pino discovered you can essentially flood requests to Blink through an application programming interface (API) involving the “document.
