Tor Browser

An invisible shield for your browsing experience

Reverse Proxy & Gateways ★ 5.1k stars Easy setup free

🧅 Tor Browser is a powerful tool designed to provide anonymous, secure, and private access to the internet. Built on Mozilla Firefox and optimized for privacy, Tor Browser uses the Tor network (The Onion Router) to protect users' identities and locations by encrypting and relaying their internet traffic through multiple nodes across the globe. This process, known as “onion routing,” conceals users' IP addresses, making it extremely difficult for websites, advertisers, or surveillance entities to track browsing activities or pinpoint locations. For those who value privacy or face restrictive in.

Strengths

  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • One-click install on common self-host platforms
  • Mature project with 5.1k GitHub stars

Is Tor Browser secure?

OSV.dev lists 21 published advisories for Tor Browser. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2023-23589, published 2023-01-14 (1369 days ago), fixed in 0.4.7.13

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 26 · at risk

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The score is recomputed on every nightly rebuild from public repository data — see how it is calculated.

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