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CVE-2017-8458

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

Brave 0.12.4 has a URI Obfuscation issue in which a string such as https://safe.example.com@unsafe.example.com/ is displayed without a clear UI indication that it is not a resource on the safe.example.com web site.

Affected products

• https://github.com/brave/brave-core: 0.12.4

References

• https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/4748
• https://hackerone.com/reports/175529
• https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/4748
• https://hackerone.com/reports/175529

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