CVE-2017-8459 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00137.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
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Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:brave:brave:0.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://hackerone.com/reports/175701

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-03T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:23.339Z

Reserved: 2017-05-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8459

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:23.339Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-03T14:59:00.240

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-8459

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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