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:
- Host attached PoC from web
- 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.