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  1. CVE-2026-5901: Chrome DevTools Policy Bypass Lets Extensions Modify Cookie Hosts

    Insufficient policy enforcement in Chrome DevTools is back in the spotlight with CVE-2026-5901, a newly published Chromium issue that could let a malicious extension bypass enterprise host restrictions for cookie modification in Google Chrome versions prior to 147.0.7727.55. The bug is rated Low...
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  2. CVE-2026-5914 Chrome Type Confusion: Heap Corruption via Malicious Extensions

    Type confusion bugs in browser engines rarely stay theoretical for long, and CVE-2026-5914 is another reminder that the most dangerous path into a modern browser is often not the web page itself, but the extension ecosystem wrapped around it. Google says the flaw affected Chrome prior to...
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  3. Cookie-Bite Attack: Protecting Cloud Sessions from Stealth Browser Extension Threats

    A new browser-based threat dubbed the “Cookie-Bite” attack is capturing the cybersecurity community’s attention, raising major concerns over the integrity of authentication within cloud environments like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS, and others. The discovery, recently...
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