GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-qjxf-f2mg-c6mc Tornado is vulnerable to DoS due to too many multipart parts
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-31958
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- tornado
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-12
Affected packages
• PyPI tornado: < 6.5.5 → fixed in 6.5.5
Description
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.
Tornado 6.5.5 introduces new limits on the size and complexity of multipart bodies, including a default limit of 100 parts per request. These limits are configurable if needed; see `tornado.httputil.ParseMultipartConfig`. It is also now possible to disable `multipart/form-data` parsing entirely if it is not required for the application.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-31958 Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-qjxf-f2mg-c6mc web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31958 advisory
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/119a195e290c43ad2d63a2cf012c29d43d6ed839 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tornado/PYSEC-2026-140.yaml web
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado package
- https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/releases/tag/v6.5.5 web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/04/msg00000.html web