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Bug 766048 (CVE-2020-28476) - www-servers/tornado: cache poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2020-28476)
Summary: www-servers/tornado: cache poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2020-28476)
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2020-28476
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: B4 [upstream]
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Reported: 2021-01-18 22:19 UTC by John Helmert III
Modified: 2021-07-26 14:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-01-18 22:19:46 UTC
CVE-2020-28476 (https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-1017109):

All versions of package tornado are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter.


Seems to me like this CVE text is accurate, so we're waiting for upstream.
Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-01-18 23:06:59 UTC
I don't see a public bug report on Tornado bug tracker, at least while using the 'obvious' search terms.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-01-18 23:13:04 UTC
I think it might be https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/issues/2790.
Comment 3 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-07-26 14:57:25 UTC
This was deemed "not a vulnerability" according to the Snyk link...