A vulnerability was found in Brave Browser up to 1.43.87. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block of the component ipfs Scheme Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Brave Browser before 1.43.88 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service in private and guest windows via a crafted HTML file that mentions an ipfs:// or ipns:// URL. This is caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-47932 and CVE-2022-47934.

The weakness was presented 12/25/2022 as 24211. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-47934 since 12/23/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.43.88 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 82d8e39043e691e0492519126437275511ee87e8 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

See VDB-216751 and VDB-216752 for similar entries.

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• Brave

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• Browser

Version

• 1.43.0
• 1.43.1
• 1.43.2
• 1.43.3
• 1.43.4
• 1.43.5
• 1.43.6
• 1.43.7
• 1.43.8
• 1.43.9
• 1.43.10
• 1.43.11
• 1.43.12
• 1.43.13
• 1.43.14
• 1.43.15
• 1.43.16
• 1.43.17
• 1.43.18
• 1.43.19
• 1.43.20
• 1.43.21
• 1.43.22
• 1.43.23
• 1.43.24
• 1.43.25
• 1.43.26
• 1.43.27
• 1.43.28
• 1.43.29
• 1.43.30
• 1.43.31
• 1.43.32
• 1.43.33
• 1.43.34
• 1.43.35
• 1.43.36
• 1.43.37
• 1.43.38
• 1.43.39
• 1.43.40
• 1.43.41
• 1.43.42
• 1.43.43
• 1.43.44
• 1.43.45
• 1.43.46
• 1.43.47
• 1.43.48
• 1.43.49
• 1.43.50
• 1.43.51
• 1.43.52
• 1.43.53
• 1.43.54
• 1.43.55
• 1.43.56
• 1.43.57
• 1.43.58
• 1.43.59
• 1.43.60
• 1.43.61
• 1.43.62
• 1.43.63
• 1.43.64
• 1.43.65
• 1.43.66
• 1.43.67
• 1.43.68
• 1.43.69
• 1.43.70
• 1.43.71
• 1.43.72
• 1.43.73
• 1.43.74
• 1.43.75
• 1.43.76
• 1.43.77
• 1.43.78
• 1.43.79
• 1.43.80
• 1.43.81
• 1.43.82
• 1.43.83
• 1.43.84
• 1.43.85
• 1.43.86
• 1.43.87

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• open-source

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