CVE-2025-48980 (GCVE-0-2025-48980)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-30 23:29 – Updated: 2025-12-01 20:22
VLAI
Summary
In Brave Browser Desktop versions prior to 1.83.10 that have the split view feature enabled, the "Open Link in Split View" context menu item did not respect the SameSite cookie attribute. Therefore SameSite=Strict cookies would be sent on a cross-site navigation using this method.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-31 14:47 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-565 - Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking
Assigner
hackerone CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 59/100 over 213 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Brave Desktop Browser Affected: 1.83.10 , < 1.83.10 (semver)
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