CVE-2021-39246 (GCVE-0-2021-39246)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-24 18:08 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Tor Browser through 10.5.6 and 11.x through 11.0a4 allows a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses. Exact timestamps of these onion-service visits are logged locally, and an attacker might be able to compare them to timestamp data collected by the destination server (or collected by a rogue site within the Tor network).
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/sickcodes/security/blob/master… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://sick.codes/sick-2021-111 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.privacyaffairs.com/cve-2021-39246-tor… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/comm… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merg… | x_refsource_MISC |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.