CVE-2021-22916

EPSS 1.8%CWE-200

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 1.8%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

12 Jul 2021Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In Brave Desktop between versions 1.17 and 1.26.60, when adblocking is enabled and a proxy browser extension is installed, the CNAME adblocking feature issues DNS requests that used the system DNS settings instead of the extension's proxy settings, resulting in possible information disclosure.

Affected products

n/a · https://github.com/brave/brave-core

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References

https://hackerone.com/reports/1203842