CVE-2021-21323

Regression in DNS leakage from Tor windows

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Feb 23, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Dec 22, 2020

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Description

Brave is an open source web browser with a focus on privacy and security. In Brave versions 1.17.73-1.20.103, the CNAME adblocking feature added in Brave 1.17.73 accidentally initiated DNS requests that bypassed the Brave Tor proxy. Users with adblocking enabled would leak DNS requests from Tor windows to their DNS provider. (DNS requests that were not initiated by CNAME adblocking would go through Tor as expected.) This is fixed in Brave version 1.20.108

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
brave-browserbrave
  • >= 1.17.73, < 1.20.108Affected

References

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