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CVE-2025-47287 High

Tornado vulnerable to excessive logging caused by malformed multipart form data

### 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.

Exploit probability 0.7%
Published July 7, 2026
Required by Not available
Last source change July 7, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

PyPI tornado

75 explicit affected versions

PyPI tornado

75 explicit affected versions

Unknown Unknown

48 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-7cx3-6m66-7c5m

### 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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Open Source Vulnerabilities PYSEC-2026-1974

### 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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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-47287

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. 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. All versions of Tornado prior to 6.5.0 are affected. The vulnerable parser is enabled by default. Upgrade to Tornado version 6.50 to receive a patch. As a workaround, risk can be mitigated by blocking `Content-Type: multipart/form-data` in a proxy.

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05 / REFERENCES

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