CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2005-2643

MEDIUM
5.0
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Tor 0.1.0.13 and earlier, and experimental versions 0.1.1.4-alpha and earlier, does not reject certain weak keys when using ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DH) handshakes, which allows malicious Tor servers to obtain the keys that a client uses for other systems in the circuit.

How to fix

Remediation Available
torDebian
Fixed in:0.1.0.14-1CVE-2005-2643
Fixed in:0.1.0.14-1CVE-2005-2643
Fixed in:0.1.0.14-1CVE-2005-2643
Fixed in:0.1.0.14-1CVE-2005-2643

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

1.25%probability of exploitation in 30 days
66thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 66% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1
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