CVE-2021-38385

high

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

Tor before 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, and 0.4.6.7 mishandles the relationship between batch-signature verification and single-signature verification, leading to a remote assertion failure, aka TROVE-2021-007.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`0.4.6.7-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.4.5.10-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.4.5.10-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.4.5.10-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.4.5.10-1~deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.4.5.10-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-38385

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.