Tornado before 6.5.8 contains an incomplete fix for cookie attribute injection that allows attackers to inject arbitrary cookie attributes by passing capitalized or legacy keyword arguments to set_cookie. Attackers can embed semicolon-delimited data in capitalized parameters like Domain, Path, or SameSite to bypass validation and modify cookie security attributes.
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-wwv5-g3v4-889x
Published: 2026-09-15
Updated: 2026-09-16
Base Score: 4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 5.4
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 6.3
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Severity: Medium
EPSS: 0.00219