WS-2023-0296 (Medium) detected in tornado-6.2-cp37-abi3-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl

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WS-2023-0296 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - tornado-6.2-cp37-abi3-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.

Library home page: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/19/bb/b6c3d1668d2b10ad38a584f3a1ec9737984e274f8b708e09fcbb96427f5c/tornado-6.2-cp37-abi3-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl

Path to dependency file: /jupyter-conda-22-04/files/etc/jupyter/requirements.txt

Path to vulnerable library: /jupyter-conda-22-04/files/etc/jupyter/requirements.txt

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ipykernel-6.16.2-py3-none-any.whl (Root Library)
  • ❌ tornado-6.2-cp37-abi3-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 6b247e0983d2f20a95b630486ea47b527c663ebb

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

Tornado vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling via improper parsing of Content-Length fields and chunk lengths

Publish Date: 2023-08-15

URL: WS-2023-0296

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.6)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: Low
  • Integrity Impact: Low
  • Availability Impact: Low

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: GHSA-qppv-j76h-2rpx

Release Date: 2023-08-15

Fix Resolution (tornado): 6.3.3

Direct dependency fix Resolution (ipykernel): 6.17.0

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