Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting tor package, versions [,0.3.5.14)[0.4.4.4,0.4.4.8)[0.4.5.0,0.4.5.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOR-2371382
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-28090  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tor to version 0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, 0.4.5.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Tor before 0.4.5.7 allows a remote attacker to cause Tor directory authorities to exit with an assertion failure, aka TROVE-2021-002.

CVSS Scores

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