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HIGH 7.5

GHSA-7cx3-6m66-7c5m

Tornado vulnerable to excessive logging caused by malformed multipart form data

Details

### Summary

When Tornado's ``multipart/form-data`` parser encounters certain errors, it logs a warning but continues trying to parse the remainder of the data. This allows remote attackers to generate an extremely high volume of logs, constituting a DoS attack. This DoS is compounded by the fact that the logging subsystem is synchronous.

### Affected versions

All versions of Tornado prior to 6.5 are affected. The vulnerable parser is enabled by default.

### Solution

Upgrade to Tornado version 6.5. In the meantime, risk can be mitigated by blocking `Content-Type: multipart/form-data` in a proxy.

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Affected packages

PyPI / tornado
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 6.5
Fix pip install --upgrade 'tornado>=6.5'

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