A vulnerability in google chrome exposes wifi networks

After releasing its new version yesterday, bad news arrives for Google Chrome. A security flaw has been detected in the browser that exposes the WiFi networks of millions of homes, according to British researchers. With a few steps, you can access a wireless network of users using Chrome or Opera as their browser.

A vulnerability in Google Chrome exposes WiFi networks

The problem seems to lie in the poor security that the browser offers when storing the administrator credentials of the router and the automatic use that is made of it. As the process is not encrypted, this network is easily accessed.

Security flaw in Google Chrome

Although this is an existing flaw in the browser, the researchers themselves consider that the possibility of an attack is relatively low. Since the attacker must be in the range of said WiFi network in order to benefit from this failure in Google Chrome. So it greatly limits the chances that something will actually happen.

Although, they comment that if this is true, in less than a minute you could have access to the network of said user. Therefore, although it is unlikely, it is a security flaw that must be taken into account and should not be neglected.

There has been no reaction from Google Chrome. Although it seems that in the last hours this bug could have been solved and the browser has already covered this vulnerability. Good news for users.

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