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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-5878998
  • published5 Sept 2023
  • disclosed1 Sept 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Sep 2023

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-23  (opens 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