CVE-2018-10799 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause the Brave browser to hang by exploiting mishandled long URLs with specific Unicode characters in script elements.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-10799?
CVE-2018-10799 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 May 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A hang issue was discovered in Brave before 0.14.0 (on, for example, Linux). This vulnerability is caused by the mishandling of a long URL formed by window.location+='?\u202a\uFEFF\u202b'; concatenation in a SCRIPT element.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10799?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Brave Brave.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10799?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-10799 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-10799 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10799 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gmqc-qcv8-vfr5.