CVE-2026-31958Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Tornado

Severity
8.7HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 11
Latest updateMar 12

Description

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.5.5.

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages3 packages

debiandebian/python-tornado< python-tornado 6.1.0-1+deb11u4 (bullseye)
NVDtornadoweb/tornado< 6.5.5
PyPItornadoweb/tornado< 6.5.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
Tornado is vulnerable to DoS due to too many multipart parts2026-03-12
OSV
Tornado is vulnerable to DoS due to too many multipart parts2026-03-12
OSV
CVE-2026-31958: Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library2026-03-11

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
tornado-python: Tornado: Denial of Service via large multipart bodies2026-03-11
Debian
CVE-2026-31958: python-tornado - Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. In versio...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-31958 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2026-31958 tornado-python: Tornado: Denial of Service via large multipart bodies2026-03-11
CVE-2026-31958 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption | cvebase