CVE-2025-47287
HIGHTornado < 6.5.0 - Resource Allocation Without Limits
Title source: ruleDescription
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. When Tornado's ``multipart/form-data`` parser encounters certain errors, it logs a warning but continues trying to parse the remainder of the data. This allows remote attackers to generate an extremely high volume of logs, constituting a DoS attack. This DoS is compounded by the fact that the logging subsystem is synchronous. All versions of Tornado prior to 6.5.0 are affected. The vulnerable parser is enabled by default. Upgrade to Tornado version 6.50 to receive a patch. As a workaround, risk can be mitigated by blocking `Content-Type: multipart/form-data` in a proxy.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-7cx3-6m66-7c5m
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/b39b892bf78fe8fea01dd45199aa88307e7162f3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00038.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0116
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
pypi/tornado
0 - 6.5PyPI
tornadoweb/tornado
< 6.5.0
Published
May 15, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026