CVE•Published 2026-08-20•Modified 2026-09-08•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-77639Torproject · Tor
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
5.3
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS percentile
16
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 84% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-09-08
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common). Live host counts are a Premium feature.
Shodan · vuln tag
vuln:CVE-2026-77639Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Torproject Tor"All exposed Torproject Tor instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Tor"HTTP body or banner mentions "Tor" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-77639Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-77639Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-77639Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-77639GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-77639" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-77639 on GitHub.
We haven't classified any articles referencing CVE-2026-77639 yet. The external references above still apply.