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Security update for python-tornado6

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Published: 01/12/2026 (01/12/2026, 10:29:37 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: SUSE Product Security Team
Product: SUSE

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

Affected versions
SUSEaarch64python313-tornado6-6.5-160000.3.1.aarch64ppc64lepython313-tornado6-6.5-160000.3.1.ppc64le

AI-Powered Analysis

Machine-generated threat intelligence

AILast updated: 09/17/2026, 02:46:44 UTC

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.

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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

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