Tor Browser 10.0.18 Released – Fixed The Flaw That Let Websites Tracking Users

Tor is one of the biggest open-source software, its networks have virtual tunnels that generally enable people and different groups to enhance their privacy and security on the Internet.

Recently Tor has released its Tor Browser 10.0.18, and the main motive of this release is to fix all the countless bugs, which also include a vulnerability that enables different websites to keep track of their users by fingerprinting the installed application.

We all know that Tor administers Internet traffic with the help of an overlay network that is free worldwide.

But, this network consists of nearly seven thousand relays, that help in concealing a user’s location as well as usage from people who are conducting network surveillance or traffic examination.

Scheme Flooding vulnerability

Scheme flooding is a vulnerability, that uses different custom URL schemes as an attack vector. According to the experts, this vulnerability generally enables the actors to identify that which applications have been installed by the users.

Once the experts identified the application successfully, then they use all the data and information of the installed app on the user’s computer. 

And the main motive of doing this is that they want to assign a permanent unique identifier in the user’s computer so that they can use the system even if the users switch browsers just by using incognito mode or a VPN.

Not only this but scheme flooding also allows third-party tracking in a different browser. However, this exploit generally helps the hackers to track down the usage of users’ browsers like Google Chrome, Safari, even the Tor browser as well.

Thorough Changelog

The experts have mentioned a full changelog for Tor 10.0.18, which is given below:-

All Platforms

• Update Tor to 0.4.5.9

Android

• Update Fenix to 89.1.1
• Update NoScript to 11.2.8
• Bug 40055: Rebase android-components patches on 75.0.22 for Fenix 89
• Bug 40165: Announce v2 onion service deprecation on about:tor
• Bug 40166: Hide “Normal” tab (again) and Sync tab in TabTray
• Bug 40167: Hide “Save to Collection” in menu
• Bug 40169: Rebase fenix patches to fenix v89.1.1
• Bug 40170: Error building tor-browser-89.1.1-10.5-1
• Bug 40432: Prevent probing installed applications
• Bug 40470: Rebase 10.0 patches onto 89.0

Build System

• Android
  • Bug 40290: Update components for mozilla89-based Fenix

According to the security researchers, as well as Tor, this new version updates Tor to 0.4.5.9, and it consists of all the important security fixes. 

While this new release also updates Firefox to 89.1.1, and NoScript to 11.2.8 and all this new version includes the important security updates to Firefox for Android.

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