VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-77639

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-20
Last modified2026-10-18
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • cve@mitre.org: CWE-420

Primary references