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HIGHCVSS 7.5EPSS 0.4%

CVE-2026-82397

CVE-2026-82397 updated by NVD

Published
2026-09-02
Modified
2026-09-11
EPSS percentile
28%
Sources
github-advisory, nvd

Summary

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.8, Tornado parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies with urllib.parse.parse_qs in tornado/escape.py without passing max_num_fields. RequestHandler._execute in tornado/web.py parses the body before handler dispatch through HTTPServerRequest._parse_body and parse_body_arguments in tornado/httputil.py, so an unauthenticated request body containing millions of separator-delimited fields can synchronously stall the single-threaded event loop and delay every connection. The body is bounded only by max_buffer_size, which defaults to 104857600 bytes. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.8.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffected versionsFixed versions
PyPItornado6.5.8

Remediation: Upgrade to 6.5.8 or later.

References

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