CVE-2014-9720

Advisory

Tornado before 3.2.2 sends arbitrary responses that contain a fixed CSRF token and may be sent with HTTP compression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct a BREACH attack and determine this token via a series of crafted requests.

Affected package

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Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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Resources

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9720
• https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1c36307463b1e8affae100bf9386948e6c1b2308
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930362
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/4
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222816
• http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v3.2.2.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9720