Vulnerability CVE-2021-28089
Published: 2021-03-19

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.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Torproject -> TOR 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
https://blog.torproject.org/node/2009
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40304
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HPDXB2GZHG3VNOTWSXQ3QZVHNV76WCU5/
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