CVE-2026-82397Tornado: Urlencoded body parsing omits max_num_fields, so one request can stall the event loop
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.8, Tornado parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies with urllib.parse.parse_qs in tornado/escape.py without passing max_num_fields. RequestHandler._execute in tornado/web.py parses the body before handler dispatch through HTTPServerRequest._parse_body and parse_body_arguments in tornado/httputil.py, so an unauthenticated request body containing millions of separator-delimited fields can synchronously stall the single-threaded event loop and delay every connection. The body is bounded only by max_buffer_size, which defaults to 104857600 bytes. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.8.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected < 6.5.8
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPItornadoGHSA-mpf4-983q-p7j4 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-mpf4-983q-p7j4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/pull/3704 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/8d6363ed7b69d5f0da806efe34d256627a2191de (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/releases/tag/v6.5.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-68892 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mpf4-983q-p7j4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-82397)Record last updated .