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Medium severity · published Jan 24, 2020
CVE-2014-9720
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…
6.5
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TO
Tornado · Tornadoweb
before 3.2.2 · source: NVD
Affected product
TO
Tornado
Tornadoweb
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9720
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9720
Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/4
Release Notes
http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v3.2.2.html
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930362
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222816
Patch
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1c36307463b1e8affae100bf9386948e6c1b2308
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