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.
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Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:30:00 +0000

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Title Compression Bomb Bypass Vulnerability in Tor

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:15:00 +0000

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Description 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.
First Time appeared Torproject
Torproject tor
Weaknesses CWE-420
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:torproject:tor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Torproject
Torproject tor
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-20T20:57:50.207Z

Reserved: 2026-08-20T20:57:49.855Z

Link: CVE-2026-77639

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-20T21:17:11.233

Modified: 2026-08-20T21:17:11.233

Link: CVE-2026-77639

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-21T01:15:07Z

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