CVE-2012-2374

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

tornadoweb tornado: through 2.2; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1 (+3)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/12
http://secunia.com/advisories/49185
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53612
http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/v2.2.1.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/12
http://secunia.com/advisories/49185
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/18/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53612
http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/v2.2.1.html

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