🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-77641

MEDIUM 6.5
CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a NULL write after free when sending a CONFLUX_SWITCH cell fails. The return value of relay_send_command_from_edge() was ignored, so a send failure (which calls circuit_mark_for_close() and removes the leg via cfx_del_leg()) would go undetected, causing the caller to write to the now-freed current leg and resulting in a crash. This is TROVE-2026-017.

CWE CWE-252
Vendor torproject
Product tor
Published Aug 20, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Affected Versions

torproject / Tor
0.4.8.1-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