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CVE-2024-52804PYSEC-2026-1975GHSA-8W49-H785-MJ3C

Tornado has HTTP cookie parsing DoS vulnerability

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.4.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. 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. Version 6.4.2 fixes the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • tornadoweb tornado

    fixed in 6.4.2

  • tornadoPyPI

    fixed in 6.4.2

References 3

GitHub · tornadoweb/tornado

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