CVE-2023-22798 describes a vulnerability in Brave’s adblock-lists, specifically prior to commit 51867e0d15a6d7f80d5b714fd0e9976b9c160bb0. The "debouncing" feature, intended to remove tracking redirects, inadvertently removed security-critical redirect interceptors on certain websites like Facebook, potentially leading to open redirects. This vulnerability is rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.1), requiring user interaction (UI:R) and having low impact on confidentiality and integrity (C:L/I:L). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2022-05-25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:brave:adblock-lists:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.