Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Tornado CRLF injection vulnerability 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
pypi	tornado	>=0 <2.2.1	2.2.1
debian 14	python-tornado	>=0 <2.1.0-3	2.1.0-3
debian 12	python-tornado	>=0 <2.1.0-3	2.1.0-3
debian 13	python-tornado	>=0 <2.1.0-3	2.1.0-3

Aliases

1. CVE-2012-23742. NVD-2012-23743. OSV-2012-23744. OSV-DEBIAN-2012-23745. GCVE-2012-23746. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2012-2374

References

1. https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1ae91f6d58e6257e0ab49d295d8741ce1727bdb72. https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tornado/PYSEC-2012-5.yaml3. https://web.archive.org/web/20200229124524/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/536124. http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/125. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/66. http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/v2.2.1.html

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