CVE-2026-91991

NameCVE-2026-91991
DescriptionTornado before 6.5.8 contains an incomplete fix for cookie attribute injection that allows attackers to inject arbitrary cookie attributes by passing capitalized or legacy keyword arguments to set_cookie. Attackers can embed semicolon-delimited data in capitalized parameters like Domain, Path, or SameSite to bypass validation and modify cookie security attributes.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1148323

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
python-tornado (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)6.2.0-3+deb12u4vulnerable
trixie (security), trixie6.4.2-3+deb13u2fixed
forky, sid6.5.5-5vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-tornadosourcetrixie(not affected)
python-tornadosource(unstable)(unfixed)1148323

Notes

[trixie] - python-tornado <not-affected> (Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-35536 not applied)
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-wwv5-g3v4-889x
CVE exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-35536

Search for package or bug name: Reporting problems