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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.9/ChangeLog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · torprojectNVD modified 2026-10-18 20:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:torproject:tor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 1
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.9/ChangeLog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory