Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.6, tornado.web.RedirectHandler URL templates can place regex-capture substitutions where crafted request paths change the redirect scheme or network location. Affected placements include substitutions at the start of a path, directly after a fixed host, or at the beginning of the template, including protocol-relative, absolute, backslash, encoded, host-extension, and user-info variants interpreted by browsers as attacker-controlled destinations. Static templates and substitutions after a fixed host followed by a slash are not affected. An attacker can use the resulting open redirect on the application's domain for phishing. 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.web.RedirectHandler URL templates can place regex-capture substitutions where crafted request paths change the redirect scheme or network location. Affected placements include substitutions at the start of a path, directly after a fixed host, or at the beginning of the template, including protocol-relative, absolute, backslash, encoded, host-extension, and user-info variants interpreted by browsers as attacker-controlled destinations. Static templates and substitutions after a fixed host followed by a slash are not affected. An attacker can use the resulting open redirect on the application's domain for phishing. This issue is fixed in version 6.6. | |
| Title | Tornado: Open redirect in RedirectHandler via protocol-relative URLs | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-601 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-10-26T20:22:32.217Z
Reserved: 2026-10-26T15:03:39.035Z
Link: CVE-2026-116578
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-26T21:18:14.747
Modified: 2026-10-26T21:18:15.077
Link: CVE-2026-116578
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