CVE-2026-49855

Tornado (Python) prior to 6.5.6 allows a malicious server accessed via SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer with decompress_request=True to accumulate decompressed data without an overall size limit, potentially causing memory exhaustion. Affected is gzip decompression routines that previously ...

Tornado: Authorization header forwarded across cross-origin redirects in SimpleAsyncHTTPClient

Summary When SimpleAsyncHTTPClient follows a 3xx redirect, it shallow-copies the original HTTPRequest, rewrites the URL, decrements maxredirects, and removes only the Host header. It does not clear Authorization, authusername, authpassword, or authmode when the redirect target changes origin. As ...