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CVE-2017-8459· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Brave 0.12.4 has a Status Bar Obfuscation issue in which a redirection target is shown in a possibly unexpected way.

Brave 0.12.4 has a Status Bar Obfuscation issue in which a redirection target is shown in a possibly unexpected way. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because it is a behavior that might have legitimate applications in (for example) the display of web-search results

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
May 3, 2017
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.7% · 50th percentile
CWE
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Action score

21

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

Affected systems

VendorProduct
bravebrave

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • brave brave0.12.4

Same product

brave: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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  • CVE-2022-47932Brave 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
    26Monitor
  • CVE-2018-10799A hang issue was discovered in Brave before 0.14.0 (on, for example, Linux).
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  • CVE-2018-10798A hang issue was discovered in Brave before 0.14.0 (on, for example, Linux).
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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
low · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
Low

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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