The corrosion behaviour and the dezincification process of cold-deformed CuZn-42 brass were tested in an acid sulphate solution at pH-value 2 with additional chloride and copper(II) ions by use of the linear polarization method.The measured corrosion potential and densities of corrosion currents were observed as characteristics of the dezincification process and the corrosion resistance of tested samples of cold-deformed CuZn-42 brass. The results obtained have shown that pH-value 2 of the tested solutions and increased concentrations of copper(II) ions result in increased values of densities of corrosion currents of the tested brass samples, as a result of selective zinc dissolution and the individual dissolution of zinc and copper including the process of anodic oxidation. The tested concentrations of chloride ions in certain conditions have an inhibiting effect, whereas in the other conditions they act as distinctive activators of brass corrosion. The lowest values of corrosion currents are present in the brass samples with the highest deformation degree at 80%. The process of dezincification and anode dissolution of cold deformed brass samples were developed in the whole range of tested potentials.