CVE-2017-8821Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Project TOR

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 3
Latest updateMay 17

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:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDtor_project/tor0.2.60.2.8.17+4
Debiantorproject/tor< 0.3.1.9-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-8p62-7f73-7q9x: In Tor before 02022-05-17
CVEList
CVE-2017-8821: In Tor before 02017-12-03
OSV
CVE-2017-8821: In Tor before 02017-12-03

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-8821: tor - 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....2017

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-8819 CVE-2017-8820 CVE-2017-8821 CVE-2017-8822 CVE-2017-8823 tor: Multiple vulnerabilities [epel-6]2017-12-05
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-8820 CVE-2017-8821 CVE-2017-8822 CVE-2017-8819 CVE-2017-8823 tor: Multiple vulnerabilities2017-12-05
CVE-2017-8821 — TOR Project TOR vulnerability | cvebase