# CVE-2026-91991: Tornado before 6.5.8 Cookie Attribute Injection via Capitalized kwargs

- Also known as: GHSA-WWV5-G3V4-889X
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.5.8
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-10-08

## Affected

- tornadoweb tornado: from 6.5.5, fixed in 6.5.8
- tornado (PyPI): from 6.5.5, fixed in 6.5.8

## Description

Tornado before 6.5.8 contains an incomplete fix for cookie attribute injection that allows attackers to inject arbitrary cookie attributes by passing capitalized or legacy keyword arguments to set_cookie. Attackers can embed semicolon-delimited data in capitalized parameters like Domain, Path, or SameSite to bypass validation and modify cookie security attributes.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tornadoweb tornado, tornado, upgrade to a fixed version (6.5.8) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-wwv5-g3v4-889x
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tornado-before-6.5.8-cookie-attribute-injection-via-capitalized-kwargs

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