Chromium Blink Vulnerability 'Brash' Causes Browser Crashes – No Fix Yet
Category:Vulnerabilities / Browser
A critical unpatched vulnerability in Chromium’s Blink engine can crash or freeze browsers including Chrome, Edge, Brave, and others. Security researcher Jose Pino demonstrated a PoC attack injecting millions of DOM mutations per second to trigger DoS conditions.
CORTEX Protocol Intelligence Assessment
Business Impact: The vulnerability can disrupt web operations at scale and affect billions of end users. Technical Context: Exploits saturate the browser's main thread through uncontrolled document.title API updates.
Strategic Intelligence Guidance
- Monitor for unusual browser crash patterns in enterprise environments.
- Limit untrusted web content execution in Chromium-based browsers.
- Follow Google’s bug tracker for patch release updates.
- Alert development teams managing web apps built on Blink-based environments.
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Intelligence Source: Security hole slams Chromium browsers - no fix yet • The Register | Oct 30, 2025