CVE-2012-2250 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Tor versions prior to 0.2.3.24-rc. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by incorrectly performing link protocol negotiation, leading to an assertion failure and daemon exit. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.2.3.23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:torproject:tor:*:rc:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:torproject:tor:0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:torproject:tor:0.0.2:pre13:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:torproject:tor:0.0.2:pre14:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:torproject:tor:0.0.2:pre15:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.