Exposure of Sensitive Information Vulnerability CVE-2021-45884 for Brave Web Browser

description-logoDescription

In Brave Desktop 1.17 through 1.33 before 1.33.106, when CNAME-based adblocking and a proxying extension with a SOCKS fallback are enabled, additional DNS requests are issued outside of the proxying extension using the system\'s DNS settings, resulting in information disclosure. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-21323 and CVE-2021-22916.

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Brave

CVE References

CVE-2021-45884