HTTP Response Splitting Affecting tornado package, versions [,2.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-40094
  • published25 Feb 2016
  • disclosed23 May 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2012

CVE-2012-2374  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

tornado is a Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. CRLF injection vulnerability in the tornado.web.RequestHandler.set_header function in Tornado before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via crafted input.

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