Description
Brave Browser implements a built-in AdBlock component that can parse Adblock Plus filters (e.g. EasyList). The parser is implemented from Brave in native C++ code and was found to be vulnerable to an out-of-bounds (OOB) write of arbitrary size in memory.
Exploiting this vulnerability might allow an adversary writing to arbitrary memory address of Chrome’s privileged process since the AdBlock initialization is executed from the main process before delegating to sandboxed workers. This means, an adversary could utilize this vulnerability to execute malicious code from Chrome’s privileged process.
CVSS 3.0 Base Score
6.5 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Researcher
xen1thlabs software labs
POC
Not releasing for now
Disclosure Timeline
- 19-Jun-2019 Notified vendor
- 15-Aug-2019 Brave browser Android v1.2.0 released which resolves this
