{"id":"CVE-2024-14029","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-14029","generatedAt":"2026-09-20T15:03:30.638Z","title":"Attackers can exploit this inconsistency when Tornado is deployed behind proxies to perform HTTP request smuggling, enabling access control bypass, cache poisoning, or connection desynchronization.","description":"Tornado before 6.4.1 ignores duplicate Transfer-Encoding: chunked headers, treating requests as having no message body and parsing the chunked body as a subsequent request. Attackers can exploit this inconsistency when Tornado is deployed behind proxies to perform HTTP request smuggling, enabling access control bypass, cache poisoning, or connection desynchronization.","published":"2026-09-15T16:17:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-16T13:42:49.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":9,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-444"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00351,"percentile":0.28841,"date":"2026-09-19","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.35%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-753j-mpmx-qq6g","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tornado-before-6.4.1-http-request-smuggling-via-transfer-encoding","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-753j-mpmx-qq6g","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-14029","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}