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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-115927

🗓️ 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Unauthenticated DoS in Tornado via HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding.

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circl
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CVE-2026-115927
26 Oct 202619:42
–circl
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CVE-2026-115927
26 Oct 202619:37
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cvelist
Cvelist
CVE-2026-115927 Tornado: Event loop blocking and excess memory use from chunked bodies with many small chunks
26 Oct 202619:37
–cvelist
debiancve
Debian CVE
CVE-2026-115927
27 Oct 202618:18
–debiancve
euvd
EUVD
EUVD-2026-110077
28 Oct 202622:43
–euvd
github
Github Security Blog
Tornado: Event loop blocking and excess memory use from chunked bodies with many small chunks
28 Oct 202622:43
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mend
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CVE-2026-115927
26 Oct 202619:37
–mend
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CVE-2026-115927
26 Oct 202620:17
–nvd
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CGA-5PQQ-2F99-HRV4
29 Oct 202614:32
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29 Oct 202614:16
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
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  - Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.6.0, Tornado decodes
    HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding by processing body data that has already arrived without yielding to
    the event loop. A remote unauthenticated peer can send millions of one-byte chunks to monopolize the
    process event loop and stall every other connection served by that process, while lowering max_body_size
    only limits the duration of each request. For handlers that do not use @stream_request_body, retaining
    each chunk as a separate object can consume roughly twenty times the received body size, and
    SimpleAsyncHTTPClient has the same event-loop behavior when reading a response from a malicious server.
    This issue is fixed in version 6.6.0. (CVE-2026-115927)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Debian Linux-12": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "12",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "python-tornado-doc"},
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');

var third_party_support = get_kb_item('Host/OS/extended-third-party');
if (!empty_or_null(third_party_support)) {
    var third_party_vendors = distro_constraints_values['third_party'];
    if (!empty_or_null(third_party_vendors)) {
        var vendor;
        foreach vendor (third_party_vendors) {
            if (vendor == third_party_support) exit(0, 'A third party management patch is available for this vulnerability from ' + vendor + '.\n');
        }
    }
}

var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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28 Oct 2026 00:00Current
6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6
CVSS 3.15.3
EPSS0.00384
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