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AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Sending CC_RESPONSE without CC_REQUEST requires no special race or timing; pure availability impact since the node crashes with no confidentiality or verifiable integrity effect.
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Tor before 0.4.9.12 interprets the CC_RESPONSE extension even when CC_REQUEST was not sent, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) because of corrupted congestion-control state. This is TROVE-2026-032.
AnalysisAI
Remote denial-of-service in Tor before 0.4.9.12 allows any unauthenticated network peer to crash a Tor relay or client by transmitting a CC_RESPONSE congestion-control extension without a prior CC_REQUEST, corrupting the node's internal congestion-control state. Affected releases span 0.4.9.3-alpha through 0.4.9.11; the Tor Project patched this in 0.4.9.12 (TROVE-2026-032) with a ChangeLog entry and source commit. …
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| Exploitation | The target must run Tor 0.4.9.3-alpha through 0.4.9.11. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The CVSS 3.1 score of 6.5 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H) reflects network accessibility and high availability impact moderated by a high-complexity rating - yet even a mid-sized privacy infrastructure operator in rybnik running public Tor relay nodes should treat this as operationally urgent, because the AC:H designation likely overstates practical difficulty: the triggering condition requires only sending CC_RESPONSE without a prior CC_REQUEST, which any peer can engineer trivially by omitting the request step, suggesting real-world exploitability is closer to AC:L. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | Full exploit scenario with step-by-step reproduction available after sign-in. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to Tor 0.4.9.12 or later, which includes the fix for TROVE-2026-032 as documented in the official ChangeLog (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.12/ChangeLog) and the upstream remediation commit (https://gitlab.com/torproject/tor/-/commit/10d4b8ffefa7c00aab2b631ed7e7f15e42cd012d). … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
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EUVD-2026-74539
GHSA-c2x3-p37c-phvc