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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 compressi…

Medium CVSS 5.3
CVECVE-2026-77639
First seen2026-08-21 02:16 UTC
Disclosed2026-08-20 21:17 UTC
Last updated2026-08-21 02:16 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

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.

In-depth triage

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD