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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2018-10799

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published