CVE-2023-23589 Information

Description

The SafeSocks option in Tor before 0.4.7.13 has a logic error in which the unsafe SOCKS4 protocol can be used but not the safe SOCKS4a protocol aka TROVE-2022-002.

Reference

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/commit/a282145b3634547ab84ccd959d0537c021ff7ffc https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40730 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/release-0.4.7/ReleaseNotes