Description
Tor before 0.4.9.10 did not reject a CONFLUX_LINK cell that arrives on a circuit which already has attached streams. A malicious client could send a RELAY_COMMAND_BEGIN before the CONFLUX_LINK on the same circuit, attaching an exit stream that would later end up orphan leaving a dangling circuit back-pointer and a use-after-free (UAF) when the circuit is freed. This is TROVE-2026-025.
Affected products
torproject: tor
References1
- gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.10/ChangeLog Release NotesVendor Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.2
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 16 · as of 10 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-821
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