CVE-2025-47287
May 15, 2025
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.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.0.0 <v6.5.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v6.5.0tornado (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.2 <6.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 6.5tornado (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.2 <6.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 6.5Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
EPSS
Base Score:
0.3