tornadoweb/tornado · Security
Tornado XSRF cookie allows side-channel attack against TLS (BREACH attack)
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv
- CVE ID
- CVE-2014-9720
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 7.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Tornado before 3.2.2 sends arbitrary responses that contain a fixed CSRF token and may be sent with HTTP compression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct a BREACH attack and determine this token via a series of crafted requests.
CWEs
- CWE-203 · Observable Discrepancy
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9720 ↗
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1c36307463b1e8affae100bf9386948e6c1b2308 ↗
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930362 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222816 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/4 ↗
- http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v3.2.2.html ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tornado/PYSEC-2020-213.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv ↗