tornadoweb/tornado · Security
Tornado has incomplete validation of cookie attributes
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-78cv-mqj4-43f7
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description
Values passed to the domain, path, and samesite arguments of RequestHandler.set_cookie were not completely validated in versions of Tornado prior to 6.5.5. In particular, semicolons would be allowed, which could be used to inject attacker-controlled values for other cookie attributes.
CWEs
- CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')