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GHSA-qjxf-f2mg-c6mc

Tornado is vulnerable to DoS due to too many multipart parts

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-31958

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI tornado < 6.5.5 6.5.5

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

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