In Tornado before 6.5.5, cookie attribute injection could occur because the domain, path, and samesite arguments to .RequestHandler.set_cookie were not checked for crafted characters.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-fqwm-6jpj-5wxc Tornado has cookie attribute injection via .RequestHandler.set_cookie
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:15:00 +0000

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Title Cookie Attribute Injection in Tornado’s set_cookie tornado: Tornado: Cookie attribute injection due to improper handling of cookie arguments
Weaknesses CWE-88
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Cookie Attribute Injection in Tornado’s set_cookie
First Time appeared Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado
Vendors & Products Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

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Description In Tornado before 6.5.5, cookie attribute injection could occur because the domain, path, and samesite arguments to .RequestHandler.set_cookie were not checked for crafted characters.
Weaknesses CWE-159
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-03T13:12:16.105Z

Reserved: 2026-04-03T02:25:57.035Z

Link: CVE-2026-35536

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-03T13:12:12.583Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-04-03T04:16:53.550

Modified: 2026-04-03T16:10:23.730

Link: CVE-2026-35536

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-04-03T02:25:57Z

Links: CVE-2026-35536 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-03T09:15:59Z

Weaknesses