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We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities
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We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities

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We recently discovered a privacy vulnerability affecting all Firefox-based browsers. The issue allows websites to derive a unique, deterministic, and stable process-lifetime identifier from the order of entries returned by IndexedDB, even in contexts where users expect stronger isolation. This means a website can create a set of IndexedDB databases, inspect the returned ordering, and use that ordering as a fingerprint for the running browser process. Because the behavior is process-scoped rather than origin-scoped, unrelated websites can independently observe the same identifier and link activity across origins during the same browser runtime. In Firefox Private Browsing mode , the identifier can also persist after all private windows are closed, as long as the Firefox process remains running. In Tor Browser, the stable identifier persists even through the "New Identity" feature, which is designed to be a full reset that clears cookies and browser history and uses new Tor circuits.…

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