CVE-2026-49855 (GCVE-0-2026-49855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-14 20:45 – Updated: 2026-07-14 20:45
VLAI
Title
tornado AsyncHTTPClient accumulates decompressed chunks without size limit (gzip bomb)
Summary
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tornadoweb tornado Affected: < 6.5.6
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