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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2026-77639

VendortorprojectProducttorDiscoveredAug 20, 2026UpdatedSep 8, 2026

Tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a compression bomb bypass where an attacker could concatenate many gzip or zlib sub-streams, each just under the per-stream detection threshold, to avoid the compression bomb check entirely. This is TROVE-2026-022.

CVSS v3.1
5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.39%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
0
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 22, 2026 → Sep 25, 2026
▲ 0.14pp
0.25% → 0.39% over 3 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityLOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Connections
2 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Aug 20, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Sep 8, 2026