Tails OS Users Advised Not to Use Tor Browser Until Critical Firefox Bugs are Patched
May 26, 2022
The maintainers of the Tails project have issued a warning that the Tor Browser that's bundled with the operating system is unsafe to use for accessing or entering sensitive information. "We recommend that you stop using Tails until the release of 5.1 (May 31) if you use Tor Browser for sensitive information (passwords, private messages, personal information, etc.)," the project said in an advisory issued this week. Tails, short for The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a security-oriented Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity by connecting to the internet through the Tor network. The alert comes as Mozilla on May 20, 2022 rolled out fixes for two critical zero-day flaws in its Firefox browser, a modified version of which acts as the foundation of the Tor Browser. Tracked as CVE-2022-1802 and CVE-2022-1529, the two vulnerabilities are what's referred to as prototype pollution that could be weaponized to gain J...
