CRLF injection vulnerability in the tornado.web.RequestHandler.set_header function in Tornado before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via crafted input.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - CRLF injection vulnerability in the tornado.web.RequestHandler.set_header function in Tornado before 2.2.1
    allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via
    crafted input. (CVE-2012-2374)

According to its banner, the version of Tornado installed on the remote host is older than 2.2.1.  As such, it may be affected by an HTTP response splitting vulnerability that may allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to forge responses from a trusted server.

Update to 2.2.1 which fixes an HTTP header injection vulnerability.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
431856	SCA: security update for tornado (GHSA-f7fv-v9rh-prvc)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
431856	SCA: security update for tornado (GHSA-f7fv-v9rh-prvc)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
59356	Tornado < 2.2.1 HTTP Response Splitting	Nessus	Web Servers	medium
59301	Fedora 16 : python-tornado-2.2.1-1.fc16 (2012-8217)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
59300	Fedora 15 : python-tornado-2.2.1-1.fc15 (2012-8205)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
59299	Fedora 17 : python-tornado-2.2.1-1.fc17 (2012-8194)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-2374

high

Tenable Plugins

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high

medium

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medium