Description
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.
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Remediation
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56 | tornado AsyncHTTPClient accumulates decompressed chunks without size limit (gzip bomb) |
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History
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0000
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Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6. | |
| Title | tornado AsyncHTTPClient accumulates decompressed chunks without size limit (gzip bomb) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-409 | |
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| Metrics |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-14T20:45:02.982Z
Reserved: 2026-06-01T22:03:19.640Z
Link: CVE-2026-49855
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-07-15T15:15:03Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA