CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2006-6893
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
2.11%
Original NVD 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.