Whale Browser before 1.3.48.4 displays no URL information but only a title of a web page on the browser's address bar when visiting a non-ht
Whale Browser before 1.3.48.4 displays no URL information but only a title of a web page on the browser's address bar when visiting a non-http page, which allows an attacker to display a malicious web page with a fake domain name.
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- Aug 2, 2018
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.8% · 54th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-20
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Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.8%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| navercorp | whale | cpe:2.3:a:navercorp:whale |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- navercorp whalebefore 1.3.48.4
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (naver). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
NAVER Corporation Whale Browser
- unspecified and later · before 1.3.48.4affected
Same product
navercorp: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2025-62583Whale Browser before 4.33.325.17 allows an attacker to escape the iframe sandbox in a dual-tab environment.39Monitor
- CVE-2025-53599Whale browser for iOS before 3.9.1.4206 allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the browser via a crafted javascript scheme.39Monitor
- CVE-2022-24074Whale Bridge, a default extension in Whale browser before 3.12.129.18, allowed to receive any SendMessage request from the content script it39Monitor
- CVE-2025-69234Whale browser before 4.35.351.12 allows an attacker to escape the iframe sandbox in a sidebar environment.36Monitor
- CVE-2018-9859The path of Whale update service was unquoted in NAVER Whale before 1.0.40.7.32Monitor
- CVE-2018-12449The Whale browser installer 0.4.3.0 and earlier versions allows DLL hijacking.31Monitor
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
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- YongShao (Zhiyong Feng)Mobike Security Team
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
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- low · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-20 · Improper Input ValidationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment VariablesCAPEC-10likelihood: High · High
- Server Side Include (SSI) InjectionCAPEC-101likelihood: High · High
- Cross Zone ScriptingCAPEC-104likelihood: Medium · High
- Command Line Execution through SQL InjectionCAPEC-108likelihood: Low · Very High
- Object Relational Mapping InjectionCAPEC-109likelihood: Low · High
- SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter TamperingCAPEC-110likelihood: High · Very High
- Double EncodingCAPEC-120likelihood: Low · Medium
- Subverting Environment Variable ValuesCAPEC-13likelihood: High · Very High
ATT&CK techniques
- Obfuscated Files or InformationT1027
- Masquerading: Invalid Code SignatureT1036.001
- Steal Web Session CookieT1539
- Subvert Trust Controls: Code SigningT1553.002
- Impair Defenses:Impair Command History LoggingT1562.003
- Hijack Execution Flow:Dynamic Linker HijackingT1574.006
- Hijack Execution Flow:Path Interception by PATH Environment VariableT1574.007
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.