Web Cache Poisoning The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tornado  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.24% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-1017109
  • published18 Jan 2021
  • disclosed13 Oct 2020
  • creditSnyk Security Team

Introduced: 13 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-28476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning. The root cause of this vulnerability was determined to by a python issue, see here for more details. Upgrade to a fixed version of python to ensure your application is secure.