Relative Path Traversal Affecting tornado package, versions [3.1, 4.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-5878998
  • published 5 Sep 2023
  • disclosed 1 Sep 2023
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 1 Sep 2023

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-23 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade tornado to version 4.2.1 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 Relative Path Traversal via StaticFileHandler function, allowing access to files whose name starts with the static root directory.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.6 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low