CVE-2017-18256: Brave Browser

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Brave Browser before 0.13.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long alert() argument in JavaScript code, because window dialogs are mishandled.

Affected products

• Brave Brave Browser: before 0.13.0 (fixed in 0.13.0)

Published 2018-04-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.