CVE-2012-2374 (GCVE-0-2012-2374)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-23 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1046 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/49185 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/12 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2012-04-23 00:00
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