CVE-2026-49855

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.
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14 Jul 2026, 21:17

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Published : 2026-07-14 21:17

Updated : 2026-07-16 16:19


NVD link : CVE-2026-49855

Mitre link : CVE-2026-49855

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-49855


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CWE
CWE-409

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)