Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-8458
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 17:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-8458
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-22T02:47:27.216642901Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/4748",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/175529"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 404283,
"published_at": "2017-05-03T14:59:00.197+00:00"
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