USN-6159-1: Tornado vulnerability

13 June 2023

Tornado could be made to redirect users to arbitrary web site if it opened a specially crafted URL.

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Packages

  • python-tornado - scalable, non-blocking web server and tools - documentation

Details

It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled certain redirect.
An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to redirect a user to an
arbitrary web site and conduct a phishing attack by having user access a
specially crafted URL.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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