CVE-2026-115927 (GCVE-0-2026-115927)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-26 19:37
Modified
2026-10-27 14:18
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CWE
Summary
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.6.0, Tornado decodes HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding by processing body data that has already arrived without yielding to the event loop. A remote unauthenticated peer can send millions of one-byte chunks to monopolize the process event loop and stall every other connection served by that process, while lowering max_body_size only limits the duration of each request. For handlers that do not use @stream_request_body, retaining each chunk as a separate object can consume roughly twenty times the received body size, and SimpleAsyncHTTPClient has the same event-loop behavior when reading a response from a malicious server. This issue is fixed in version 6.6.0.
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Impacted products
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| tornadoweb | tornado |
Version: < 6.6.0 |
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