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CVE-2006-6893

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2006-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Tor allows remote attackers to discover the IP address of a hidden service by accessing this service at a high rate, thereby changing the server's CPU temperature and consequently changing the pattern of time values visible through (1) ICMP timestamps, (2) TCP sequence numbers, and (3) TCP timestamps, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-0414. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a laws-of-physics vulnerability that is a fundamental design limitation of certain hardware implementations, so perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Affected Platforms

Tor Tor

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References