# CVE-2022-47933: Brave Browser before 1.42.51 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML file that references the IPFS scheme.

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-12-24 · Updated: 2025-04-15

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Brave Browser before 1.42.51 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML file that references the IPFS scheme. This vulnerability is caused by an uncaught exception in the function ipfs::OnBeforeURLRequest_IPFSRedirectWork() in ipfs_redirect_network_delegate_helper.cc.

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## References

- https://github.com/brave/brave-core/commit/7ef8cb2f232abdf59ec9c3c99a086a14b972bc56
- https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/13989
- https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23646
- https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/24378
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1610343

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