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CVE-2026-31958: tornadoweb tornado · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affects tornadoweb tornadoSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.7 High : upgrade to 6.5.5 soon.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.7High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 33% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 6.5.5
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 Mar 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 24 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade tornadoweb tornado to 6.5.5.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
tornadowebtornadoAffected
  • <6.5.5
Fixed in
  • 6.5.5
PyPItornadopkg:pypi/tornadoOther threatsAffected
  • <6.5.5
Fixed in
  • 6.5.5

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AI-suggested

Upgrade Tornado to version 6.5.5 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. Since the vendor advisory confirms the fix in 6.5.5, applying this official patch is the recommended remediation. No other mitigations are indicated.

Description

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.5.5.

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