Tornado before 6.6 Cookie Attribute Injection via set_cookie max_age
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- Fixed in 6.6
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
Do first: Upgrade to a fixed version: 6.6.
- Last modified
- FIRST's estimate of the chance attackers exploit it in the next 30 days, updated daily.What do these mean? →
- 0.17% · 6th percentile
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 9/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
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.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
- Exposure7/25Reachable over the network without a login · Unknown: No advisory context yet
- Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
- Severity2.3/10CVSS 2.3
- No patch0/5No signal
What would change the score
- Would score about 64 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 59 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 24 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
What to do
Upgrade to a fixed version: 6.6.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
Affected versions
- tornadoweb tornado
fixed in 6.6
Evidence 2
- Advisory
- Link
Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-123535
Is CVE-2026-123535 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-123535?
tornado: before 6.6.Source: cve.now feed data
How do I fix CVE-2026-123535?
Upgrade to a fixed version: 6.6.Source: cve.now feed data