CVE-2025-67726 (GCVE-0-2025-67726)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-12 06:13 – Updated: 2025-12-18 18:48
VLAI
Title
Tornado is Vulnerable to Quadratic DoS via Crafted Multipart Parameters
Summary
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Versions 6.5.2 and below use an inefficient algorithm when parsing parameters for HTTP header values, potentially causing a DoS. The _parseparam function in httputil.py is used to parse specific HTTP header values, such as those in multipart/form-data and repeatedly calls string.count() within a nested loop while processing quoted semicolons. If an attacker sends a request with a large number of maliciously crafted parameters in a Content-Disposition header, the server's CPU usage increases quadratically (O(n²)) during parsing. Due to Tornado's single event loop architecture, a single malicious request can cause the entire server to become unresponsive for an extended period. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.3.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-18 18:47 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-834 - Excessive Iteration
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7642 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
tornadoweb tornado Affected: < 6.5.3
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