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CVE-2026-77642

critical

tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to an out-of-bounds write when parsing a consensus or detached signature with unexpected signature digest type.

Vendor / product: Torproject — tor

tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to an out-of-bounds write when parsing a consensus or detached signature with unexpected signature digest type. Impact is minor for most Tor roles, but potentially major for directory authorities. This is TROVE-2026-019.

CVSS
9.3
9.3 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-08-20 22:18
Modified: 2026-10-18 20:10
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:07 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

torproject / tor <0.4.9.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.9/ChangeLog

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:07 UTC · record ↗

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