CVE-2024-52804High· 7.5▾ TwilightTornado has an HTTP cookie parsing DoS vulnerability
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 41.3 · likelihood 0.2 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via OSV
1.1%
Last analysed / modified upstream
The algorithm used for parsing HTTP cookies in Tornado versions prior to 6.4.2 sometimes has quadratic complexity, leading to excessive CPU consumption when parsing maliciously-crafted cookie headers. This parsing occurs in the event loop thread and may block the processing of other requests.
See also CVE-2024-7592 for a similar vulnerability in cpython.
tornado < 6.4.2Upgrade to a patched release:
tornado 6.4.2Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
CVE-2026-103262High· 7.5Tornado versions before 6.5.9 contain an unbounded memory accumulation vulnerability in CurlAsyncHTTPClient that allows remote attackers to cause denial of service by sending a compressed response
CVE-2026-103263Medium· 5.9Tornado before 6.5.9 contains a path traversal vulnerability in StaticFileHandler that follows symbolic links inside the static root without confirming the resolved target stays within it
CVE-2026-103261Medium· 5.3Tornado before 6.5.9 fails to limit the number of query string fields in HTTPServerRequest.__init__, allowing remote attackers to cause event-loop stalling by sending requests with thousands of query parameters
GHSA-c2m8-h5v5-343rHighTornado: StaticFileHandler follows symlinks outside static root (path traversal)
GHSA-3hv7-mjh2-fv65Medium· 5.3Tornado: Unbounded query-string argument count allows event-loop-stalling DoS
GHSA-chx6-46f5-w4vpHigh· 7.5tornado: CurlAsyncHTTPClient enforces no response-size limit — decompression bomb drives unbounded memory accumulation to OOM