CVE 5.4 MEDIUM

Tornado vulnerable to Header Injection and XSS via reason argument_CVE-2025-67724

5.4 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. In versions 6.5.2 and below, the supplied reason phrase is used unescaped in HTTP headers (where it could be used for header injection) or in HTML in the default error page (where it could be used for XSS) and can be exploited by passing untrusted or malicious data into the reason argument. Used by both RequestHandler.set_status and tornado.web.HTTPError, the argument is designed to allow applications to pass custom "reason" phrases (the "Not Found" in HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found) to the HTTP status line (mainly for non-standard status codes). This issue is fixed in version 6.5.3.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-67724
Source GitHub_M
Published Dec 12, 2025 at 05:36

Affected Product

Vendor tornadoweb
Product tornado
Version < 6.5.3
Affected Versions tornadoweb tornado < 6.5.3

CWE Classification

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