Red Hat Security Advisory: python-tornado security update
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library that provides an open source version of scalable, non-blocking web server and tools. Security Fix(es): * python-tornado: Tornado has HTTP cookie parsing DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-52804) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The pcs packages, which provide command-line configuration for Pacemaker and Corosync, include a dependency on python-tornado. Tornado contains an HTTP cookie parsing vulnerability (CVE-2024-52804) that can be exploited to cause a denial of service. Red Hat has released updated pcs packages for multiple architectures and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support to fix this issue. The advisory is RHSA-2025:3108. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, but the issue is rated as having an Important security impact by Red Hat.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition in the pcs service by exploiting the HTTP cookie parsing flaw in python-tornado. This could disrupt cluster management operations that rely on pcs, potentially affecting high availability and resilient storage configurations on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 systems.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated pcs packages that address this vulnerability. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support variants should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:3108 and the referenced update article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258). Applying the official update is the recommended mitigation. No alternative mitigations or workarounds are specified in the advisory.
Red Hat Security Advisory: python-tornado security update
Description
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library that provides an open source version of scalable, non-blocking web server and tools. Security Fix(es): * python-tornado: Tornado has HTTP cookie parsing DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-52804) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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Weaknesses
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Technical Analysis
The pcs packages, which provide command-line configuration for Pacemaker and Corosync, include a dependency on python-tornado. Tornado contains an HTTP cookie parsing vulnerability (CVE-2024-52804) that can be exploited to cause a denial of service. Red Hat has released updated pcs packages for multiple architectures and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support to fix this issue. The advisory is RHSA-2025:3108. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, but the issue is rated as having an Important security impact by Red Hat.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition in the pcs service by exploiting the HTTP cookie parsing flaw in python-tornado. This could disrupt cluster management operations that rely on pcs, potentially affecting high availability and resilient storage configurations on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 systems.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated pcs packages that address this vulnerability. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support variants should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:3108 and the referenced update article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258). Applying the official update is the recommended mitigation. No alternative mitigations or workarounds are specified in the advisory.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:3108
- Cve Count
- 1
- Additional Cves
- []
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a3da1d64853345fc182728d
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:47:02 UTC
Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 22:15:49 UTC
Last updated: 07/02/2026, 20:51:14 UTC
Views: 4
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