Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2016-7401 |
CWE-ID | CWE-352 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Tornado Server applications / Web servers |
Vendor | Tornado |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU698
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7401
CWE-ID:
CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to interraction error between Django's cookie parsing code and Google Analytics. A remote attacker can set arbitrary cookies and bypass CSRF protection, implemented by web application.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to bypass various website security mechanisms, based on cookies.
MitigationUpdate to version 4.4.2.
http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v4.4.2.html
Vulnerable software versionsTornado: 4.4 - 4.4.1
CPE2.3 External linkshttp://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/bb022643-84fb-11e6-a4a1-60a44ce6887b.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.