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SCA: security update for tornado (GHSA-fqwm-6jpj-5wxc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 439863

Description

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

 - In Tornado before 6.5.5, cookie attribute injection could occur because the domain, path, and samesite
 arguments to .RequestHandler.set_cookie were not checked for crafted characters. (CVE-2026-35536)

Solution

Update the tornado library and its related packages to version 6.5.5 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fqwm-6jpj-5wxc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 439863

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/4/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-35536

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-35536

cwe: CWE-159