Tornado Side Channel Attack Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	74717
Class:	Configuration Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 27 2014 12:00AM
Updated:	May 27 2014 12:00AM
Credit:	The vendor reported this issue.
Vulnerable:	Tornado Tornado 3.2.1 Tornado Tornado 3.1.1 Tornado Tornado 3.0.2 Tornado Tornado 3.0.1 Tornado Tornado 2.4.1 Tornado Tornado 2.2.1 Tornado Tornado 3.2 Tornado Tornado 3.1 Tornado Tornado 3.0 Tornado Tornado 2.4 Tornado Tornado 2.3 Tornado Tornado 2.2 Tornado Tornado 1.0
Not Vulnerable:	Tornado Tornado 3.2.2

Tornado Side Channel Attack Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Tornado is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability.

Remote attackers can perform man-in-the-middle attacks to gain access to sensitive information. This may aid in further attacks.

Tornado Side Channel Attack Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Tornado Side Channel Attack Information Disclosure Vulnerability

References:

• Bug 1222816 - python-tornado: XSRF cookie allows side-channel attack against TLS (Red Hat Bugzilla)
  
• Tornado 3.2.2 (Tornado)
  
• Tornado Homepage (Tornado)
  
• Change the xsrf cookie format to be masked with a random salt. (Tornado)