GHSA-qjxf-f2mg-c6mc
Tornado is vulnerable to DoS due to too many multipart parts
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
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.
Tornado 6.5.5 introduces new limits on the size and complexity of multipart bodies, including a default limit of 100 parts per request. These limits are configurable if needed; see `tornado.httputil.ParseMultipartConfig`. It is also now possible to disable `multipart/form-data` parsing entirely if it is not required for the application.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-qjxf-f2mg-c6mc
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31958
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/119a195e290c43ad2d63a2cf012c29d43d6ed839
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tornado/PYSEC-2026-140.yaml
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/releases/tag/v6.5.5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/04/msg00000.html