Tornado
CVE-2023-25264
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication mechanism validation
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Defense Evasion, Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could bypass authentication mechanisms to gain unauthorized access by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An issue was discovered in Docmosis Tornado prior to version 2.9.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement multi-factor authentication, enforce strong password policies, use proven authentication frameworks.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Improper Authentication (CWE-287), which allows attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms to gain unauthorized access. An issue was discovered in Docmosis Tornado prior to version 2.9.5. An unauthenticated attacker can bypass the authentication check filter completely by introducing a specially crafted request with relative path segments. Affected products include: Docmosis Tornado. Version information: version 2.9.5..
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An issue was discovered in Docmosis Tornado prior to version 2.9.5. An unauthenticated attacker can bypass the authentication check filter completely by introducing a specially crafted request with relative path segments.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
An issue in Docmosis Tornado v.2.9.7 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted script
An issue was discovered in Docmosis Tornado prior to version 2.9.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability i
py3-tornado in Alpine Linux received a security fix packaged as version 6.5.4-r0, addressing an unspecified vulnerabilit
Docmosis Tornado <= 2.9.4 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal leading to the disclosure of arbitrary content on the fil
Denial of service in the Tornado web framework's CurlAsyncHTTPClient (all releases before 6.5.9) lets an unauthenticated
In versions of Tornado prior to 6.5.5, the only limit on the number of parts in `multipart/form-data` is the `max_body_s
Memory amplification denial of service in the Tornado Python web framework before 6.5.8 lets unauthenticated remote atta
Credential leakage in Tornado's CurlAsyncHTTPClient (all releases through 6.5.6) lets sensitive per-request state — clie
Unauthenticated local file disclosure in Tornado before 6.5.9 lets remote attackers read files outside a configured stat
Denial-of-service in Tornado prior to 6.5.8 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to stall the entire server by sendin
Tornado Python web framework on Alpine Linux received a security fix in package version 6.5.4-r0, addressing an uncharac
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerabilit
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