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CVE-2014-9720 (GCVE-0-2014-9720)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-24 17:03 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:55
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Summary
Tornado before 3.2.2 sends arbitrary responses that contain a fixed CSRF token and may be sent with HTTP compression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct a BREACH attack and determine this token via a series of crafted requests.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2014-06-03 00:00
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