Brave Browser Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-28364

An Open Redirect vulnerability exists prior to version 1.52.117, where the built-in QR scanner in Brave Browser Android navigated to scanned URLs automatically without showing the URL first. Now the user must manually navigate to the...

CVE-2022-47934

Brave Browser before 1.43.88 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service in private and guest windows via a crafted HTML file that mentions an ipfs:// or ipns:// URL. This is caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-47932 and...

CVE-2022-47932

Brave Browser before 1.43.34 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML file that mentions an ipfs:// or ipns:// URL. This vulnerability is caused by an incomplete fix for...

CVE-2022-47933

Brave Browser before 1.42.51 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML file that references the IPFS scheme. This vulnerability is caused by an uncaught exception in the function ipfs::OnBeforeURLRequest_IPFSRedirectWork() in...

CVE-2018-1000815

Brave Software Inc. Brave version version 0.22.810 to 0.24.0 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in function ContentSettingsObserver::AllowScript() in content_settings_observer.cc that can result in Websites can run inline JavaScript even if script is blocked, making attackers easier to track...

CVE-2022-30334

Brave before 1.34, when a Private Window with Tor Connectivity is used, leaks .onion URLs in Referer and Origin headers. NOTE: although this was fixed by Brave, the Brave documentation still advises "Note that Private Windows with Tor Connectivity in Brave are just regular private windows that use....

CVE-2021-45884

In Brave Desktop 1.17 through 1.33 before 1.33.106, when CNAME-based adblocking and a proxying extension with a SOCKS fallback are enabled, additional DNS requests are issued outside of the proxying extension using the system's DNS settings, resulting in information disclosure. NOTE: this issue...

CVE-2021-22929

An information disclosure exists in Brave Browser Desktop prior to version 1.28.62, where logged warning messages that included timestamps of connections to V2 onion domains in...

CVE-2021-22917

Brave Browser Desktop between versions 1.17 and 1.20 is vulnerable to information disclosure by way of DNS requests in Tor windows not flowing through Tor if adblocking was...

CVE-2021-22916

In Brave Desktop between versions 1.17 and 1.26.60, when adblocking is enabled and a proxy browser extension is installed, the CNAME adblocking feature issues DNS requests that used the system DNS settings instead of the extension's proxy settings, resulting in possible information...

CVE-2021-21323

Brave is an open source web browser with a focus on privacy and security. In Brave versions 1.17.73-1.20.103, the CNAME adblocking feature added in Brave 1.17.73 accidentally initiated DNS requests that bypassed the Brave Tor proxy. Users with adblocking enabled would leak DNS requests from Tor...

CVE-2016-10718

Brave Browser before 0.13.0 allows a tab to close itself even if the tab was not opened by a script, resulting in denial of...

CVE-2017-18256

Brave Browser before 0.13.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long alert() argument in JavaScript code, because window dialogs are...

CVE-2017-8458

Brave 0.12.4 has a URI Obfuscation issue in which a string such as https://[email protected]/ is displayed without a clear UI indication that it is not a resource on the safe.example.com web...

CVE-2016-9473

Brave Browser iOS before 1.2.18 and Brave Browser Android 1.9.56 and earlier suffer from Full Address Bar Spoofing, allowing attackers to trick a victim by displaying a malicious page for legitimate domain...