Apple, Google, and Mozilla’s browsers have a major security flaw that has been causing problems for many years. The zero-day vulnerability is related to the IP address 0.0.0.0, which is private to the user’s device. Apple and Google are working to fix the flaw in Safari and Chrome browsers. However, there is no fixed information for the Firefox browser.
Safari and Chrome Security Flaw
According to Forbes, the 0.0.0.0 exploit may have existed in the browser for 18 years without the developers’ knowledge. This is why it is being called a zero-day vulnerability, and the developers have no plans to fix it. Researchers from Israel’s cybersecurity firm Olingo are said to have discovered it.
If the user falls into this trap and opens the link, these websites can send requests to access files through the 0.0.0.0 IP address. Attacking the user’s data and files can steal all the information. Regarding this 0.0.0.0-day, Oligo AI security researcher Avi Lumelsky said that hackers use this vulnerability to breach the device’s security and access private data.
Such attacks can affect individuals and enterprises that host their own web servers. The number of systems to be compromised is still very high, and security cannot be taken lightly. Apple has said that it will block all website attempts to send queries to IP addresses associated with the public beta version of macOS Sequoia.
It confirms that this update will ship with Safari 18 and will be made available for MacOS Sonoma and MacOS Ventura. On the other hand, Google has not made any announcement to fix this vulnerability. Brand is looking for a solution by highlighting several proposals to fix this problem. At the same time, Mozilla has not yet made any announcement about fixing this problem on the Firefox browser.
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Note – Apple and Google are working on fixing the 0.0.0.0 zero-day vulnerability.
