CVE-2026-31958 HIGH

CVE-2026-31958: Tornado has a DoS due to too many multipart parts

Vendor Tornadoweb
Product tornado
Weakness CWE-400
Published March 11, 2026
Last update April 1, 2026

CVSS base score

8.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. In versions of Tornado prior to 6.5.5, the only limit on the number of parts in multipart/form-data is the max_body_size setting (default 100MB). Since parsing occurs synchronously on the main thread, this creates the possibility of denial-of-service due to the cost of parsing very large multipart bodies with many parts. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.5.5.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 11, 2026 CVE published
April 1, 2026 Record updated