Chrome 149 Patches 429 Vulnerabilities

Google has released Chrome 149, addressing a record 429 vulnerabilities, significantly outpacing prior security fixes. Over 100 of these were marked as critical or high-severity, primarily involving use-after-free and insufficient validation flaws. The most critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-10881, has a CVSS score of 9.6 and allows remote code execution via crafted HTML. Bug bounties totaling approximately $208,000 were awarded to researchers for vulnerability reports, with further amounts pending. This release highlights an increase in vulnerabilities influenced by AI, along with Google adjusting its bug bounty policies.