CVE-2017-8821 (GCVE-0-2017-8821)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-03 07:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:48
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • application hang
Assigner
debian CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard – unranked: 2 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
URL Tags
https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releas… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4054 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugs.torproject.org/24246 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a 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 Affected: 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
Date Public
2017-12-03 00:00
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