High severity · published Dec 3, 2017
CVE-2017-8821
In Tor before 0.2.5.16, 0.2.6 through 0.2.8 before 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9 before 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0 before 0.3.0.13, and 0.3.1 before 0.3.1.9, an attacker can cause a denial of service…
7.5
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Tor before 0.2.5.16, 0.2.6 through 0.2.8 before 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9 before 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0 before 0.3.0.13, and 0.3.1 before 0.3.1.9, an attacker can cause a denial of service (application hang) via crafted PEM input that signifies a public key requiring a password, which triggers an attempt by the OpenSSL library to ask the user for the password, aka TROVE-2017-011.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
TO
Tor · Tor Project
before 0.2.5.16; 0.2.6 before 0.2.8.17; 0.2.9 before 0.2.9.14; 0.3.0 before 0.3.0.13; 0.3.1 before 0.3.1.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8821
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8821
Vendor Advisory
https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-0319-03013-02914-02817-02516
Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.torproject.org/24246
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4054
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