GHSA-7cx3-6m66-7c5m
Tornado vulnerable to excessive logging caused by malformed multipart form data
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-7cx3-6m66-7c5m
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47287
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/b39b892bf78fe8fea01dd45199aa88307e7162f3
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00038.html