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CVE-2014-9720
Tornado before 3.2.2 sends arbitrary responses that contain a fixed CSRF token and may be sent with HTTP compression, which makes it…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Tornado before 3.2.2 sends arbitrary responses that contain a fixed CSRF token and may be sent with HTTP compression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct a BREACH attack and determine this token via a series of crafted requests.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPItornadoGHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases/v3.2.2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/1c36307463b1e8affae100bf9386948e6c1b2308 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930362 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222816 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0222 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8vpw-mgpf-mpvv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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