Description
Tornado before 6.5.8 contains an incomplete fix for cookie attribute injection that allows attackers to inject arbitrary cookie attributes by passing capitalized or legacy keyword arguments to set_cookie. Attackers can embed semicolon-delimited data in capitalized parameters like Domain, Path, or SameSite to bypass validation and modify cookie security attributes.
Published: 2026-09-15
Score: 6.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Tornado before 6.5.8 contains an incomplete fix for cookie attribute injection that allows attackers to inject arbitrary cookie attributes by passing capitalized or legacy keyword arguments to set_cookie. Attackers can embed semicolon-delimited data in capitalized parameters like Domain, Path, or SameSite to bypass validation and modify cookie security attributes.
Title Tornado before 6.5.8 Cookie Attribute Injection via Capitalized kwargs
First Time appeared Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado
Weaknesses CWE-113
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:tornadoweb:tornado:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N'}


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Tornadoweb Tornado
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-15T15:18:32.408Z

Reserved: 2026-09-15T11:11:13.311Z

Link: CVE-2026-91991

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-15T16:17:58.293

Modified: 2026-09-15T16:17:58.293

Link: CVE-2026-91991

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-113

    Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting')