CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-49855

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Published: Jul 14, 2026 | Modified: Jul 15, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

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