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Researcher reveals ‘catastrophic’ security flaw in the Arc browser

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The Browser Company's Arc browser has a bug that allows attackers to insert arbitrary code into other users' browser sessions.

The exploit relied on a misconfiguration in the company's implementation of Firebase , a “database-as-a-backend service” for storage of user info, including Arc Boosts .

The vulnerability was patched on August 26th and disclosed today in a blog post by security researcher xyz3va .

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