HexBrain

Brave Software · Report #415967

chrome://brave navigation from web

Validstatus
criticalseverity
21upvotes
23 Oct 2018disclosed

How it was found

Summary:

It's possible to navigate to the infamous 'chrome://brave' (and all other) privileged page from web, requiring only a single click. This is possible by opening popups with the 'noopener' attribute.

Products affected:

Brave: 0.24.0 V8: 6.9.427.23 rev: f657f15bf7e0e0c50a2b854c6b05edb59bfc556c Muon: 8.1.6 OS Release: 10.0.17134 Update Channel: Release OS Architecture: x64 OS Platform: Microsoft Windows Node.js: 7.9.0 Brave Sync: v1.4.2 libchromiumcontent: 69.0.3497.100

Steps To Reproduce:

  1. Host attached PoC from web
  2. Click button

Impact

This is a direct violation of SOP, we can open any URL of which chrome://brave is the worst as it could lead to RCE.

This report was disclosed publicly on HackerOne and belongs to its author and the program. See the original