Cross-site request forgery in Tornado - CVE-2014-9720
Published: January 24, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30427
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9720
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Tornado
Fedora
python-tornado
Fedora
python-tornado
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9720
Update to version 3.2.2.
Tornado - update to 3.2.2
python-tornado - addressed in versions 3.2.2-1.fc21, 3.2.2-1.fc22
python-tornado - addressed in versions 3.2.2-1.fc21, 3.2.2-1.fc22