Description
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. In versions of Tornado prior to 6.5.5, the only limit on the number of parts in multipart/form-data is the max_body_size setting (default 100MB). Since parsing occurs synchronously on the main thread, this creates the possibility of denial-of-service due to the cost of parsing very large multipart bodies with many parts. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.5.5.
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
9.2%
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-400
Status
published
Products (2)
pypi/tornado
0 - 6.5.5PyPI
tornadoweb/tornado
< 6.5.5 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Mar 11, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 12, 2026