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GHSA-7cx3-6m66-7c5m

Tornado vulnerable to excessive logging caused by malformed multipart form data

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2025-47287

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI tornado < 6.5 6.5

Details

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### Summary 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. ### Affected versions All versions of Tornado prior to 6.5 are affected. The vulnerable parser is enabled by default. ### Solution Upgrade to Tornado version 6.5. In the meantime, risk can be mitigated by blocking `Content-Type: multipart/form-data` in a proxy.

References

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