Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-47933 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Brave
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Brave Browser before 1.42.51 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML file that references the IPFS scheme. This vulnerability is caused by an uncaught exception in the function ipfs::OnBeforeURLRequest_IPFSRedirectWork() in ipfs_redirect_network_delegate_helper.cc.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23646
- https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/24378
- https://github.com/brave/brave-core/commit/7ef8cb2f232abdf59ec9c3c99a086a14b972bc56
- https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/13989
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1610343
- https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23646
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1610343
- https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/13989
- https://github.com/brave/brave-core/commit/7ef8cb2f232abdf59ec9c3c99a086a14b972bc56
- https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/24378