CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5397

7.2 HIGH Published 2008-12-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

Tor before 0.2.0.32 does not properly process the (1) User and (2) Group configuration options, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging unintended supplementary group memberships of the Tor process.

Affected configurations

• tor tor (<= 0.1.2.31) • tor tor 0.0.2 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre13 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre14 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre15 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre16 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre17 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre18 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre19 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre20 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre21 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre22 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre23 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre24 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre25 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre26 • tor tor 0.0.2 pre27 • tor tor 0.0.3 • tor tor 0.0.4 • tor tor 0.0.5 • tor tor 0.0.6 • tor tor 0.0.6.1 • tor tor 0.0.6.2 • tor tor 0.0.7 • tor tor 0.0.7.1 • tor tor 0.0.7.2 • tor tor 0.0.7.3 • tor tor 0.0.8 • tor tor 0.0.8.1 • tor tor 0.0.9 • tor tor 0.0.9.1 • tor tor 0.0.9.2 • tor tor 0.0.9.3 • tor tor 0.0.9.4 • tor tor 0.0.9.5 • tor tor 0.0.9.6 • tor tor 0.0.9.7 • tor tor 0.0.9.8 • tor tor 0.0.9.9 • tor tor 0.0.9.10 • tor tor 0.1.0.1 • tor tor 0.1.0.2 • tor tor 0.1.0.3 • tor tor 0.1.0.4 • tor tor 0.1.0.5 • tor tor 0.1.0.6 • tor tor 0.1.0.7 • tor tor 0.1.0.8 • tor tor 0.1.0.9 • tor tor 0.1.0.10 • tor tor 0.1.0.11 • tor tor 0.1.0.12 • tor tor 0.1.0.13 • tor tor 0.1.0.14 • tor tor 0.1.0.15 • tor tor 0.1.0.16 • tor tor 0.1.0.17 • tor tor 0.1.0.18 • tor tor 0.1.0.19 • tor tor 0.1.1.1 … and 40 more

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-842 Placement of User into Incorrect Group weakness

References