CVE-2017-8819

high
Published 2017-12-03 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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, the replay-cache protection mechanism is ineffective for v2 onion services, aka TROVE-2017-009. An attacker can send many INTRODUCE2 cells to trigger this issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.3.1.9-1
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.3.1.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.3.1.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.3.1.9-1
debian debiansidfixed0.3.1.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.3.1.9-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
tor_projecttor{"endExcluding":"0.2.5.16"}0.2.5.16

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.