🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-77639

MEDIUM 5.3
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a compression bomb bypass where an attacker could concatenate many gzip or zlib sub-streams, each just under the per-stream detection threshold, to avoid the compression bomb check entirely. This is TROVE-2026-022.

CWE CWE-420
Vendor torproject
Product tor
Published Aug 20, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Affected Versions

torproject / Tor
0.3.1.1-alpha < 0.4.9.9

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
gitlab.torproject.org: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.9/ChangeLog