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# Security hole slams Chromium browsers - no fix yet

**[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A critical unpatched vulnerability in Chromium's Blink rendering engine allows attackers to crash browsers within seconds by exploiting the lack of rate limiting on document.title API updates. The flaw affects Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium-based browsers (versions 143.0.7483.0+), impacting over 3 billion users. The exploit injects millions of DOM mutations per second, saturating the main thread and causing browser collapse. Security researcher Jose Pino disclosed the bug to Chromium in August but received no response, prompting public disclosure. Firefox and Safari are unaffected due to different rendering engines.

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