New Delhi: The Government of India (Government of India) agency CERT-IN has released the High-Civility Security Alert for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browser users. The agency said that many dangerous weaknesses have been found in the old version of these browsers, taking advantage of which hackers can steal sensitive data or run malware on the device. The government has advised users to update their browser immediately.

CERT-in warns that there are dangerous bugs in Chrome verses which are 141.0.7390.54 on Linux and 141.0.7390.54/55 on Windows and MACOS. These include flaws like Heap Buffer Overflow in WebgPu and Video, Data in Storage and Tab, wrong implementation in Media and Drmbox. Taking advantage of these weaknesses, any remote attacker can send the code to the system by sending the user to the website and can reach private data.

The version 143.0.3 of the Mozilla Firefox has also received serious security flaws in the version below 143.1 for the old and iOS. In this, problems like not having correct isolation of cookie storage, Integer overflow in Graphics Canvas2D and JIT Miscompilation in Javascript Engine have emerged. If the user clicks on a massive web request, then hackers can get control on the system and steal the sev sensitive data in the browser.

CERT-in has placed both alerts in high-risk categories and users have advised to install the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox immediately. Both Google and Mozilla have released security patches to remove these flaws. Users can also see detailed vulnerable notes and patch links by visiting the official website of CERT-in.