Tornado
CVE-2023-25265
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection 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 access files and directories outside the intended path by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Docmosis Tornado <= 2.9.4 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal leading to the disclosure of arbitrary content on the file system. 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. Validate and canonicalize file paths. Use chroot or sandboxing. Reject input containing path separators or '../' sequences.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Path Traversal (CWE-22), which allows attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path. Docmosis Tornado <= 2.9.4 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal leading to the disclosure of arbitrary content on the file system. Affected products include: Docmosis Tornado.
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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
Docmosis Tornado <= 2.9.4 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal leading to the disclosure of arbitrary content on the file system.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
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
An issue was discovered in Docmosis Tornado prior to version 2.9.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability i
Tornado's HTTP/1.x header parser consumes quadratic CPU time when a header value is spread across many obsolete line-fol
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
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