CVE-2021-21323: Brave

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Brave is an open source web browser with a focus on privacy and security. In Brave versions 1.17.73-1.20.103, the CNAME adblocking feature added in Brave 1.17.73 accidentally initiated DNS requests that bypassed the Brave Tor proxy. Users with adblocking enabled would leak DNS requests from Tor windows to their DNS provider. (DNS requests that were not initiated by CNAME adblocking would go through Tor as expected.) This is fixed in Brave version 1.20.108

Affected products

• Brave Brave: from 1.17.73, up to and including 1.20.103

Published 2021-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.