CVE-2014-9720

Summary

CVECVE-2014-9720
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-24 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-01-28 16:42:00 UTC
DescriptionTornado 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tornadoweb Tornado All All All All
Application Tornadoweb Tornado All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE request: python-tornado: XSRF cookie allows side-channel attack against TLS (BREACH) MISC openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
1222816 – (CVE-2014-9720) CVE-2014-9720 python-tornado: XSRF cookie allows side-channel attack against TLS (BREACH) MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Change the xsrf cookie format to be masked with a random salt. · tornadoweb/tornado@1c36307 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
Access Denied MISC bugzilla.novell.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
What’s new in Tornado 3.2.2 — Tornado 4.0.2 documentation MISC www.tornadoweb.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 997078 Python (Pip) Security Update for tornado (GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv)
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