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Brave Browser potentially logs the last time a Tor window was used

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Brave Software
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Reported by sickcodes

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Technical details and impact analysis

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
## Summary: A vulnerability in the Brave Browser allows an attacker to view the last time a Tor session was used in incognito mode. A local, on-disk attacker could read the Brave Browser's "Local State" json file and identify the last time a Tor session was used, affecting the confidentiality of a user's Tor session. For example, the "Local State" file of a user who has recently used a Tor session would list a key value pair with a timestamp as accurate as "13248493693576042". This allows an attacker to fingerprint, or prove beyond reasonable doubt, that a user was using Tor at that very specific moment in time. ## Products affected: Brave 1.18.27 and below ## Steps To Reproduce: Start a Tor session in Brave Browser ## Supporting Material/References: As discussed with security@ team in email chain titled: Re: [Security] CVE Request 981386 - Brave Browser (All) - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor While Using Tor Feature And fixed in PR 7010: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/7010 * List any additional material (e.g. screenshots, logs, etc.) ## Impact Violate the confidentiality of a user's Tor session.

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State

Closed

Substate

Resolved

Bounty

$100.00

Submitted

Weakness

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information