# CVE-2026-49853: Tornado: Authorization header forwarded across cross-origin redirects in SimpleAsyncHTTPClient

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3387, GHSA-3X9G-8VMP-WQVF
- Severity: CVSS 7.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.5.6
- Published: 2026-07-14 · Updated: 2026-07-21

## Affected

- tornadoweb tornado: fixed in 6.5.6
- tornado (PyPI): fixed in 6.5.6

## Description

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, SimpleAsyncHTTPClient shallow-copied redirected requests and removed only the Host header, leaving Authorization, auth_username, auth_password, and auth_mode in place when a redirect changed scheme, host, or port. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tornadoweb tornado, tornado, upgrade to a fixed version (6.5.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-3x9g-8vmp-wqvf
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/pull/3626
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/aba2569f7ed7a6bdbef816658fb6b7182531b751
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/releases/tag/v6.5.6

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