🛡️ CVE-2023-23589
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-693 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The SafeSocks option in Tor before 0.4.7.13 has a logic error in which the unsafe SOCKS4 protocol can be used but not the safe SOCKS4a protocol, aka TROVE-2022-002.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-693
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-01-14
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-04-07

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
fedora
tor 0.4.7.13

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40730
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40730

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