Google accidentally published a four-year-old Chromium security bug, then tried to hide it again

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Facepalm: The open-source Chromium project provides the foundation for Google Chrome and many other popular web browsers like Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave. When a serious security flaw is discovered in the shared codebase, it can quickly become a widespread threat affecting millions of devices across multiple computing platforms.

Google recently published – and then quickly hid – a potentially dangerous bug found in the Chromium web browser. The security vulnerability was originally discovered in 2022 and still needs to be fixed in Chromium's codebase. According to researcher Lyra Rebane, who first identified the bug four years ago, Google eventually "opened" the bug report without properly vetting what the issue could mean for the web's overall security.

Rebane explained that the bug involves Chromium's Background Fetch API, which can trigger...

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