Google Patches High-Severity V8 Race Condition in Chrome 144
Take action: If you are using Google Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera...) patch your browser ASAP. Even if the flaw is not critical, you shouldn't wait for the flaw to become actively exploited. Update now, it's trivial and all your tabs reopen after the update.
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Google released Chrome update to fix a serious flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine.
The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-1220 (CVSS score N/A, Google score High) - A race condition in the V8 engine that allows for memory manipulation. The race condition happens when different parts of the software try to use the same memory at once without waiting. Attackers can use this timing error to corrupt memory and run their own code.
If a user visits a malicious website, the attacker can trigger this flaw to get past the browser's security sandbox and run code on the host machine.
This update covers Windows, macOS, and Linux systems and was released on January 20, 2026. Users should update to version 144.0.7559.96/.97 for Windows/Mac and 144.0.7559.96 for Linux.
Users should also update all other Chromium based browsers like Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave etc since all are affected by the same flaw.
Google is not disclosing the full technical details until majority of browsers are patched.
