CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-77641

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

Tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a NULL write after free when sending a CONFLUX_SWITCH cell fails. Ignoring the return value of relay_send_command_from_edge() leads to a crash.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could crash a Tor client, leading to service disruption and potential traffic exposure.

Recommendation

Upgrade Tor to version 0.4.9.9 or later to fix this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a NULL write after free when sending a CONFLUX_SWITCH cell fails. The return value of relay_send_command_from_edge() was ignored, so a send failure (which calls circuit_mark_for_close() and removes the leg via cfx_del_leg()) would go undetected, causing the caller to write to the now-freed current leg and resulting in a crash. This is TROVE-2026-017.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS