CVE-2011-4897 — Sensitive Information Exposure in TOR

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure8 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 51.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Torproject TORTOR
Timeline
PublishedDec 23
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Tor before 0.2.2.25-alpha, when configured as a relay without the Nickname configuration option, uses the local hostname as the Nickname value, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading this value.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:N/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiantorproject/tor< 0.2.2.27-beta-1+3
▶NVDtor/tor0.2.2.24+203

Patches

Patch: blog.torproject.org ↗Patch: blog.torproject.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-7h3x-gchg-chhg: Tor before 0↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2011-4897: Tor before 0↗2011-12-23
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CVEList
CVE-2011-4897: Tor before 0↗2011-12-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2011-4897: tor - Tor before 0.2.2.25-alpha, when configured as a relay without the Nickname confi...↗2011
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2778 CVE-2011-4897 tor various flaws [epel-5]↗2012-12-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2011-4897 Tor Nickname information disclosure [fedora-all]↗2012-01-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2011-4897 Tor Nickname information disclosure↗2011-12-23
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