CVE-2026-91991

Tornado before 6.5.8 Cookie Attribute Injection via Capitalized kwargs

Published Sep 15, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 6.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Tornado before 6.5.8 Cookie Attribute Injection via Capitalized kwargs
First Time appeared Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado
Weaknesses CWE-113
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:tornadoweb:tornado:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.3, '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'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Published
Updated
Oct 8, 2026, 3:26 PM
Reserved
Sep 15, 2026, 11:11 AM
Status
Deferred
Published
Sep 15, 2026, 4:17 PM
Modified
Oct 8, 2026, 4:17 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 15, 2026, 3:18 PM