Google Chrome releases emergency security update for third zero-day vulnerability in a week, identified as CVE-2024-4947.

CVE-2024-4947, a high-severity vulnerability, arises from a type confusion issue in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

The seventh zero-day vulnerability in 2024, CVE-2024-4947 is actively exploited, marking the sixth such exploit targeting Chrome in the same year.

Update roll-out is planned for all users on the Stable Desktop channel in the coming weeks.

Google withholds details of the incidents and restricts access to bug information until most users update their browsers.

Chrome users are urged to manually update their browsers immediately to version 124.0.6367.202 or later for protection.

Users can trigger the update through 'About Chrome' in the browser's settings and must relaunch Chrome after the update.