CVE-2021-28089

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Tor before 0.4.5.7 allows a remote participant in the Tor directory protocol to exhaust CPU resources on a target, aka TROVE-2021-001.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28089

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.4.5.7-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0.4.5.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.4.5.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.4.5.7-1
debian debiansidfixed0.4.5.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.4.5.7-1

References

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