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Medium · 4.2 CVE-2026-123535 EUVD-2026-119420GHSA-cfc4-jgx9-vvjh

Tornado before 6.6 Cookie Attribute Injection via set_cookie max_age

Published Nov 8, 2026 · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Tornado before 6.6 does not validate the max_age argument of RequestHandler.set_cookie (also called by set_signed_cookie, set_secure_cookie, and clear_cookie), allowing injection of additional Set-Cookie attributes. When an application passes attacker-influenced input as max_age, an attacker can embed attributes such as Domain, Path, or Secure to widen the cookie's scope to parent paths or other subdomains.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tornadoweb tornado < 6.6 6.6

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-tornado No fix yet —
Debian 13 python-tornado No fix yet —
Debian 12 python-tornado No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-tornado No fix yet —

References