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Side-channel information leakage in Google Chrome V8

IdentifiersCVE-2025-10890CWE-310

CVE-2025-10890 is a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine used by Google Chrome. According to the provided content, the flaw is a side-channel information leak that affects Chrome versions prior to 140.0.7339.207, with Windows and Mac patched in 140.0.7339.207/.208 and Linux patched in 140.0.7339.207. A remote attacker can exploit the issue by serving a crafted HTML page and inducing a victim to open it in a vulnerable Chrome instance. Successful exploitation allows leakage of sensitive cross-origin data via side-channel techniques. The content does not identify a specific vulnerable function or code path within V8.

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Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from the victim’s browser context, specifically including cross-origin data leakage as described in the provided content. The primary impact is loss of confidentiality rather than integrity or availability. The issue is rated High severity by Chromium.

Mitigation

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The provided content does not describe a specific workaround for Chrome itself beyond applying the vendor patch. Temporary risk reduction would require limiting exposure to untrusted web content and reducing the ability of users to open attacker-controlled pages until the browser is updated, but the authoritative remediation in the content is to install the fixed version.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Update Google Chrome to a fixed release. The provided content states that the issue is fixed in Chrome 140.0.7339.207 for Linux and 140.0.7339.207/.208 for Windows and Mac. More generally, upgrade to version 140.0.7339.207 or later, using the vendor-provided update channel.
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