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Chromium Blink document.title crash security flaw

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Brash is a Chromium Blink vulnerability that can crash Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers in 15-60 seconds by abusing unthrottled `document.title` updates. The flaw floods the DOM with mutations, which can saturate the browser's main thread and degrade system performance. It affects Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc Browser, Dia Browser, OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas, and Perplexity Comet.

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  1. 30.10.2025 16:45 2 articles · 8mo ago

    Brash vulnerability crashes Chromium-based browsers in 15-60 seconds

    Initial Disclosure

    Jose Pino disclosed Brash, a vulnerability in Chromium's Blink rendering engine that can crash Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers in 15-60 seconds by abusing unthrottled document.title updates, flooding millions of DOM mutations per second and saturating the browser's main thread; Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari are not affected.

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