CVE-2014-9720
mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.025 · 85 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (3)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvvTornado XSRF cookie allows side-channel attack against TLS (BREACH attack)2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
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.
- PYSEC-2020-2132020-01-24vendor · osvUS
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.
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references (16)
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- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/4cnnvd
- http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v3.2.2.htmlcnnvd
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930362cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222816cnnvd
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1c36307463b1e8affae100bf9386948e6c1b2308cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9720cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/4enisa_euvd
- http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v3.2.2.htmlenisa_euvd
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