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CVE-2023-54397

9.0 criticalEPSS 0.4%

Critical (9.0). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in tornado 6.3.3.

Tornado before 6.3.3 contains an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability due to improper parsing of Content-Length headers accepting non-standard characters. Attackers can send crafted HTTP requests with these characters to bypass proxy validation and smuggle requests when deployed behind certain proxies.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

9.0 critical
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-444
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-qppv-j76h-2rpxPyPItornado<6.3.36.3.3

References

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