Red Hat Security Advisory: python-tornado security update
Description
A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the HTTP cookie parsing functionality of the python-tornado library, as addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 updates. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-52804 and affects the Tornado Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Red Hat has issued security advisories and updates to mitigate this issue.
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Technical Analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2024-52804 in python-tornado involves a denial of service condition triggered by HTTP cookie parsing. Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library providing scalable, non-blocking web server capabilities. Red Hat has released security updates for various Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 variants to address this issue. The advisory rates the impact as Important (high severity) and provides updated packages to remediate the vulnerability.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by exploiting the HTTP cookie parsing mechanism in python-tornado, potentially disrupting services relying on this library. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated python-tornado packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and its variants to fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the security updates as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2024:10590) and follow the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since official patches are available, applying these updates is the recommended mitigation.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:10590
- Cve Count
- 2
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-52804"]
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ac96e542cdf04f65689a7cd
Added to database: 10/09/2026, 22:44:36 UTC
Last enriched: 10/09/2026, 22:50:27 UTC
Last updated: 10/10/2026, 04:48:07 UTC
Views: 6
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