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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS04dnB3LW1ncGYtbXB2ds4AAgVX

Tornado XSRF cookie allows side-channel attack against TLS (BREACH attack)

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: almost 2 years ago
Updated: 3 months ago

CVSS Score: 6.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv, CVE-2014-9720
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/advisories/GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv

Repository: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
Blast Radius: 32.9

Affected Packages