Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.6, Tornado's HTTP header parser accepts obsolete line folding and repeatedly concatenates short continuation lines, causing quadratic CPU consumption on the IOLoop thread. An unauthenticated client can submit a header block containing many obsolete line-folding continuations before application code runs, blocking other connections served by the process. The cost grows with max_header_size, and only availability is affected. This issue is fixed in version 6.6.
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| Description | Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.6, Tornado's HTTP header parser accepts obsolete line folding and repeatedly concatenates short continuation lines, causing quadratic CPU consumption on the IOLoop thread. An unauthenticated client can submit a header block containing many obsolete line-folding continuations before application code runs, blocking other connections served by the process. The cost grows with max_header_size, and only availability is affected. This issue is fixed in version 6.6. | |
| Title | Tornado: Quadratic CPU usage when parsing HTTP headers with line folding | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-407 CWE-770 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-10-26T20:20:22.104Z
Reserved: 2026-10-26T15:03:39.035Z
Link: CVE-2026-116577
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-26T21:18:14.087
Modified: 2026-10-26T21:18:14.710
Link: CVE-2026-116577
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