CVE-2021-45884 | BDVDB-2026-166849 Detail

Description#

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 exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-21323 and CVE-2021-22916.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/10742
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19070
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/20079
https://hackerone.com/reports/1377864

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12021-12-27Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-04Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.