CVE-2026-116577 (GCVE-0-2026-116577)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-26 20:20
Modified
2026-10-26 20:20
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.6, Tornado's HTTP header parser accepts obsolete line folding and repeatedly concatenates short continuation lines, causing quadratic CPU consumption on the IOLoop thread. An unauthenticated client can submit a header block containing many obsolete line-folding continuations before application code runs, blocking other connections served by the process. The cost grows with max_header_size, and only availability is affected. This issue is fixed in version 6.6.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tornadoweb tornado Version: < 6.6
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