CVE-2026-49855

Public on 2026-07-14
Modified on 2026-07-28
Description
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
Important severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2023 python-flit Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python-tornado 2026-08-04 ALAS2-2026-3847 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 python-tornado 2026-08-04 ALAS2023-2026-2016 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python3-tornado 2026-08-04 ALAS2-2026-3846 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.13-tornado 2026-08-04 ALAS2023-2026-2015 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H