CVE-2017-8459 — Brave 0

Brave 0.12.4 has a Status Bar Obfuscation issue in which a redirection target is shown in a possibly unexpected way. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because it is a behavior that might have legitimate applications in (for example) the display of web-search results

01What is this vulnerability?

Brave 0.12.4 has a Status Bar Obfuscation issue in which a redirection target is shown in a possibly unexpected way. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because it is a behavior that might have legitimate applications in (for example) the display of web-search results

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-05-03T14:59:00.240
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/175701
• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/175701