Brave Software: DNS Leaks when using any VPN Browser extension with Brave Shield enabled

If Brave Shield is enabled alongside with a VPN Chrome extension and adblocking is enabled, some DNS requests may not be forwarded through the VPN tunnel...

Brave Software: XSS on Brave Today through custom RSS feed

A vulnerability was discovered in Brave iOS's custom RSS feed feature that allowed for cross-site scripting XSS attacks. Attackers could add a malicious RSS feed containing a javascript: URL, which could execute arbitrary code when a user clicked on a link in Brave Today. The vulnerability was...

Researcher release PoC exploit for 0-day in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera

By Deeba Ahmed The issue was demonstrated at the Pwn2Own 2021 hacking contest in which researchers won $100,000 for exploiting this flaw in Chrome and Edge. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher release PoC exploit for 0-day in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera...

Privacy-First Browser Brave Is Launching a Search Engine

Unlike Google, Brave Search won’t track or profile people who use it...

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-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-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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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-2021-21323 Regression in DNS leakage from Tor windows

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-2021-21323

Brave Browser vulnerability CVE-2021-21323 involves a DNS leak tied to the CNAME-based adblocking feature. Affected: Brave Desktop/Brave browser versions 1.17.73–1.20.103. Root cause: the CNAME adblocking flow could initiate DNS requests that bypassed the Brave Tor proxy, causing DNS traffic from...

Brave Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Francois Marier Brave Core is a GlobalFrancois Marier open source application providing a set of changes, APIs and scripts for customizing Chromium to create Brave. A security vulnerability exists in Brave versions 1.17.73-1.20.103, which stems from a CNAME adblocking accidentally triggering a DN...

Brave browser Tor feature leaked .Onion queries to ISPs

By Waqas According to a researcher, the Chromium-based, privacy-focused Brave browser has a vulnerability that's leaking DNS requests. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Brave browser Tor feature leaked .Onion queries to ISPs...

Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users

Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in a hotfix release V1.20.108 made available yesterday. Brave...

Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users

Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in a hotfix release V1.20.108 made available yesterday. Brave...

Brave Android 1.20.108 Security Fixes

Fixed ISP DNS leak when shields are enabled. Upgraded Chromium to 88.0.4324.182 — refer to Google Chrome advisories for inherited CVEs...

Brave Software: Onion-Location header allows to open arbitrary URLs including chrome:

The "Open in Tor" feature in Brave Nightly for OSX allowed arbitrary URLs to be opened through the Onion-Location response header, including privileged URLs such as chrome://restart/. This could be exploited to bypass SOP restrictions and gain access to privileged URLs...

A week in security (January 18 – January 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at changes to WhatsApp’s privacy policy, we provided information about Malwarebytes being targeted by the same threat actor that was implicated in the SolarWinds breach, we told the story of ZeroLogon, looked at the pros and cons of Zoom watermarking,...

Brave Software: Brave Browser Tor Window leaks user's real IP to the external DNS server

Summary: When a user navigates to a URL in Tor Window, the DNS requests are sent directly without using the Tor proxy, which leaks the user's real IP address and the requested domain name to the user's ISP and the DNS server. Products affected: OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS x8664 Brave: Version 1.18.78...

Brave Software: Phishing/Malware site blocking on Brave iOS can be bypassed with trailing dot in hostname

A vulnerability was discovered in Brave iOS nightly build that allowed bypassing of the phishing/malware site blocking feature by adding a trailing dot in the hostname. This allowed users to access prohibited sites without being blocked by Brave Shield protection...

CVE-2020-8276

The implementation of Brave Desktop's privacy-preserving analytics system P3A between 1.1 and 1.18.35 logged the timestamp of when the user last opened an incognito window, including Tor windows. The intended behavior was to log the timestamp for incognito windows excluding Tor windows. Note that...