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CVE-2016-10718

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10718 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Brave Browser versions prior to 0.13.0, where a malicious tab could self-close regardless of its origin, disrupting user experience. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high availability impact. While not observed in active exploitation and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists via ExploitDB (EDB-44475), though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:brave:brave_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-44475 · Apr 17, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1289 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / brave/browser-laptop/issues/5006
Third Party Advisory
github.com / brave/browser-laptop/issues/5007
Third Party Advisory
hackerone.com / reports/176197
Third Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/44475
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry