Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting tor package, versions [,0.3.5.15)[0.4.0.0,0.4.4.9)[0.4.5.0,0.4.5.9)[0.4.6.0,0.4.6.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOR-2371351
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jun 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-34549  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-755  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tor to version 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, 0.4.6.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions. An issue was discovered in Tor before 0.4.6.5, aka TROVE-2021-005. Hashing is mishandled for certain retrieval of circuit data. Consequently. an attacker can trigger the use of an attacker-chosen circuit ID to cause algorithm inefficiency.

CVSS Scores

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