Normally, enterprises patch every eight weeks on the Extended Stable Channel (ESC), allowing plenty of time for testing. In contrast, patches for zero-day vulnerabilities will usually be applied manually within days.
“For enterprise admins, the toll is real, because zero days mean a sweaty scramble to get fast patching and testing. And because Chrome updates come without real warning, hard and often, teams don’t get a break,” commented Zbyněk Sopuch, CTO of risk management company Safetica.
“The pattern here is that shared components multiply the blast radius, and until the wider community patches in an organized way, V8 stays one of the ripest targets in the room,” he added.
