CVE-2012-2374
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.33%Tornado CRLF injection vulnerability
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/python-tornadofrom 0, < 2.1.0-3
- PyPI/tornadofrom 0, < 2.2.1
- PyPI/tornadofrom 0, < 2.2.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (12)
- ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/49185
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2374
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2374
- PATCHhttps://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
- WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/12
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tornado/PYSEC-2012-5.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1ae91f6d58e6257e0ab49d295d8741ce1727bdb7
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20140720192646/http://secunia.com/advisories/49185
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200229124524/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53612
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/6
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53612
- WEBhttp://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/v2.2.1.html