MEDIUM
Tor before 0.2.1.29 and 0.2.2.x before 0.2.2.21-alpha allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via blobs that trigger a certain file size, as demonstrated by the cached-descriptors.new file
Published Jan 19, 2011
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.52%
Description
Tor before 0.2.1.29 and 0.2.2.x before 0.2.2.21-alpha allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via blobs that trigger a certain file size, as demonstrated by the cached-descriptors.new file.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- ≤ 0.2.1.28
- 0.0.2
- 0.0.2_pre13
- 0.0.2_pre14
- 0.0.2_pre15
- 0.0.2_pre16
- 0.0.2_pre17
- 0.0.2_pre18
- 0.0.2_pre19
- 0.0.2_pre20
- 0.0.2_pre21
- 0.0.2_pre22
- 0.0.2_pre23
- 0.0.2_pre24
- 0.0.2_pre25
- 0.0.2_pre26
- 0.0.2_pre27
- 0.0.3
- 0.0.4
- 0.0.5
- 0.0.6
- 0.0.6.1
- 0.0.6.2
- 0.0.7
- 0.0.7.1
- 0.0.7.2
- 0.0.7.3
- 0.0.8
- 0.0.8.1
- 0.0.9
- 0.0.9.1
- 0.0.9.2
- 0.0.9.3
- 0.0.9.4
- 0.0.9.5
- 0.0.9.6
- 0.0.9.7
- 0.0.9.8
- 0.0.9.9
- 0.0.9.10
- 0.1.0.1
- 0.1.0.2
- 0.1.0.3
- 0.1.0.4
- 0.1.0.5
- 0.1.0.6
- 0.1.0.7
- 0.1.0.8
- 0.1.0.9
- 0.1.0.10
- 0.1.0.11
- 0.1.0.12
- 0.1.0.13
- 0.1.0.14
- 0.1.0.15
- 0.1.0.16
- 0.1.0.17
- 0.1.1
- 0.1.1.1
- 0.1.1.1
- 0.1.1.2
- 0.1.1.2
- 0.1.1.3
- 0.1.1.3
- 0.1.1.4
- 0.1.1.4
- 0.1.1.5
- 0.1.1.5
- 0.1.1.6
- 0.1.1.6
- 0.1.1.7
- 0.1.1.7
- 0.1.1.8
- 0.1.1.8
- 0.1.1.9
- 0.1.1.9
- 0.1.1.10
- 0.1.1.10
- 0.1.1.11
- 0.1.1.12
- 0.1.1.13
- 0.1.1.14
- 0.1.1.15
- 0.1.1.16
- 0.1.1.17
- 0.1.1.18
- 0.1.1.19
- 0.1.1.20
- 0.1.1.21
- 0.1.1.22
- 0.1.1.23
- 0.1.1.25
- 0.1.1.26
- 0.1.2.1
- 0.1.2.2
- 0.1.2.3
- 0.1.2.4
- 0.1.2.5
- 0.1.2.5
- 0.1.2.6
- 0.1.2.7
- 0.1.2.8
- 0.1.2.9
- 0.1.2.10
- 0.1.2.11
- 0.1.2.12
- 0.1.2.13
- 0.1.2.14
- 0.1.2.15
- 0.1.2.16
- 0.1.2.17
- 0.1.2.18
- 0.1.2.19
- 0.1.2.30
- 0.1.2.31
- 0.2.0.1
- 0.2.0.2
- 0.2.0.3
- 0.2.0.4
- 0.2.0.5
- 0.2.0.6
- 0.2.0.7
- 0.2.0.8
- 0.2.0.9
- 0.2.0.10
- 0.2.0.11
- 0.2.0.12
- 0.2.0.13
- 0.2.0.14
- 0.2.0.15
- 0.2.0.16
- 0.2.0.17
- 0.2.0.18
- 0.2.0.19
- 0.2.0.20
- 0.2.0.21
- 0.2.0.22
- 0.2.0.23
- 0.2.0.24
- 0.2.0.25
- 0.2.0.26
- 0.2.0.27
- 0.2.0.28
- 0.2.0.29
- 0.2.0.29
- 0.2.0.30
- 0.2.0.30
- 0.2.0.31
- 0.2.0.31
- 0.2.0.32
- 0.2.0.33
- 0.2.0.34
- 0.2.0.35
- 0.2.1.1
- 0.2.1.2
- 0.2.1.3
- 0.2.1.4
- 0.2.1.5
- 0.2.1.6
- 0.2.1.7
- 0.2.1.8
- 0.2.1.9
- 0.2.1.10
- 0.2.1.11
- 0.2.1.12
- 0.2.1.12
- 0.2.1.13
- 0.2.1.14
- 0.2.1.15
- 0.2.1.16
- 0.2.1.17
- 0.2.1.18
- 0.2.1.19
- 0.2.1.20
- 0.2.1.21
- 0.2.1.22
- 0.2.1.23
- 0.2.1.24
- 0.2.1.25
- 0.2.1.26
- 0.2.1.27
- 0.2.2.1
- 0.2.2.1
- 0.2.2.2
- 0.2.2.2
- 0.2.2.3
- 0.2.2.3
- 0.2.2.4
- 0.2.2.4
- 0.2.2.5
- 0.2.2.5
- 0.2.2.6
- 0.2.2.6
- 0.2.2.7
- 0.2.2.8
- 0.2.2.9
- 0.2.2.10
- 0.2.2.11
- 0.2.2.12
- 0.2.2.13
- 0.2.2.14
- 0.2.2.15
- 0.2.2.16
- 0.2.2.17
- 0.2.2.18
- 0.2.2.19
- 0.2.2.20
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
2.52% 0.02524
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.02524
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.52% (0.02524) | 84.30th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.52% (0.02524) | 82.76th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.38% (0.01382) | 79.00th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 2.09% (0.02089) | 89.55th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.09% (0.02089) | 87.32th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 71.27th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 71.23th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 69.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.32% (0.01319) | 44.98th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (6)
- http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Jan-2011/msg00000.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02129-released-security-patches x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45953 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64867 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2326 x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Jan-2011/msg00000.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02129-released-security-patches | x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45953 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64867 | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF | |
| https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog | x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch | |
| https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2326 | x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 19, 2011
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jan 18, 2011
Link CVE-2011-0492
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a