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BREW-NVCHECKER-CVE-2026-49854 (GHSA-CX3H-4QPV-8HC9)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:19 – Updated: 2026-09-17 18:30 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
Tornado has out-of-bounds memory access via C extension
Details

Summary

Tornado's optional native extension tornado.speedups implements websocket_mask without validating that the mask argument is exactly four bytes long. The C function reads four bytes from mask unconditionally, even when Python passes a shorter byte string. This can read beyond the provided buffer, exposing up to 3 bytes of uninitialized memory.

The behavior is reachable from Tornado's XSRF token decoder when xsrf_cookies=True and the native extension is active.

Mitigations

This bug is fixed in Tornado 6.5.6. Prior to upgrading to this version, setting the environment variable TORNADO_EXTENSION=0 will disable the vulnerable code (at the expense of reducing websocket performance).

Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
References
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  },
  "details": "### Summary\n\nTornado\u0027s optional native extension `tornado.speedups` implements `websocket_mask` without validating that the `mask` argument is exactly four bytes long. The C function reads four bytes from `mask` unconditionally, even when Python passes a shorter byte string. This can read beyond the provided buffer, exposing up to 3 bytes of uninitialized memory.\n\nThe behavior is reachable from Tornado\u0027s XSRF token decoder when `xsrf_cookies=True` and the native extension is active. \n\n### Mitigations\n\nThis bug is fixed in Tornado 6.5.6. Prior to upgrading to this version, setting the environment variable TORNADO_EXTENSION=0 will disable the vulnerable code (at the expense of reducing websocket performance).",
  "id": "BREW-nvchecker-CVE-2026-49854",
  "modified": "2026-09-17T18:30:47Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:19:21Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-cx3h-4qpv-8hc9"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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  "summary": "Tornado has out-of-bounds memory access via C extension",
  "upstream": [
    "GHSA-cx3h-4qpv-8hc9",
    "CVE-2026-49854",
    "PYSEC-2026-3388"
  ]
}



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