Security update for python-tornado6
This security update for python-tornado6 addresses three vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-67724, which involves unescaped user input in HTTP headers and error pages that could enable header injection or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks; CVE-2025-67725, a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability due to quadratic complexity in string concatenation within the HTTPHeaders.add method; and CVE-2025-67726, another DoS vulnerability caused by quadratic complexity in parsing parameters of the Content-Disposition header. These issues can be exploited by attackers sending specially crafted HTTP requests or parameters.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The update for python-tornado6 fixes three security issues: CVE-2025-67724 allows attackers to exploit unescaped 'reason' arguments in HTTP headers and default HTML error pages to perform header injection or XSS attacks. CVE-2025-67725 is a denial-of-service vulnerability arising from quadratic complexity in string concatenation operations in the HTTPHeaders.add method, which can be triggered by malicious HTTP requests. CVE-2025-67726 is another denial-of-service vulnerability due to quadratic complexity in the _parseparam function of httputil.py when processing malicious parameters in the Content-Disposition header.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2025-67724 could allow attackers to inject malicious content into HTTP headers or error pages, potentially leading to cross-site scripting or header injection attacks. CVE-2025-67725 and CVE-2025-67726 could be exploited to cause denial-of-service conditions by overwhelming the server with computationally expensive string operations, impacting availability.
Mitigation Recommendations
A security update has been released for python-tornado6 that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the update to remediate these issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated in the provided information.
Security update for python-tornado6
Description
This security update for python-tornado6 addresses three vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-67724, which involves unescaped user input in HTTP headers and error pages that could enable header injection or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks; CVE-2025-67725, a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability due to quadratic complexity in string concatenation within the HTTPHeaders.add method; and CVE-2025-67726, another DoS vulnerability caused by quadratic complexity in parsing parameters of the Content-Disposition header. These issues can be exploited by attackers sending specially crafted HTTP requests or parameters.
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The update for python-tornado6 fixes three security issues: CVE-2025-67724 allows attackers to exploit unescaped 'reason' arguments in HTTP headers and default HTML error pages to perform header injection or XSS attacks. CVE-2025-67725 is a denial-of-service vulnerability arising from quadratic complexity in string concatenation operations in the HTTPHeaders.add method, which can be triggered by malicious HTTP requests. CVE-2025-67726 is another denial-of-service vulnerability due to quadratic complexity in the _parseparam function of httputil.py when processing malicious parameters in the Content-Disposition header.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2025-67724 could allow attackers to inject malicious content into HTTP headers or error pages, potentially leading to cross-site scripting or header injection attacks. CVE-2025-67725 and CVE-2025-67726 could be exploited to cause denial-of-service conditions by overwhelming the server with computationally expensive string operations, impacting availability.
Mitigation Recommendations
A security update has been released for python-tornado6 that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the update to remediate these issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated in the provided information.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- SUSE Product Security Team
- Advisory Id
- openSUSE-SU-2026:20015-1
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-67725","CVE-2025-67726"]
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6aab49bc55bf5e2cf5992a6f
Added to database: 09/17/2026, 02:00:28 UTC
Last enriched: 09/17/2026, 02:46:44 UTC
Last updated: 09/17/2026, 03:21:41 UTC
Views: 5
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