Parameter Injection Affecting tornado package, versions [,6.5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-15467448
  • published12 Mar 2026
  • disclosed11 Mar 2026
  • creditDHIRAL2908

Introduced: 11 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-35536  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-625  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tornado to version 6.5.5 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Parameter Injection in the set_cookie() function in web.py‎. An attacker can manipulate cookie attributes by injecting values after a semicolon into the domain, path, or samesite parameters.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1