CVE-2026-77642

high
EUVD alias: EUVD-2026-63665
Assigned by CNA: mitre
Published 2026-08-20 · Modified 2026-08-20
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to an out-of-bounds write when parsing a consensus or detached signature with unexpected signature digest type. Impact is minor for most Tor roles, but potentially major for directory authorities. This is TROVE-2026-019.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

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.

Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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