Cross-site request forgery in Tornado Tornado



| Updated: 2020-07-17
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2014-9720
CWE-ID CWE-352
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Tornado
Server applications / Web servers

Vendor Tornado

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Cross-site request forgery

EUVDB-ID: #VU30427

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 1.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9720

CWE-ID: CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.

Mitigation

Update to version 3.2.2.

Vulnerable software versions

Tornado: 3.2.1

CPE2.3 External links

https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/4
https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v3.2.2.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930362
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222816
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1c36307463b1e8affae100bf9386948e6c1b2308


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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