CVE-2025-47287CWE-770

Tornado vulnerable to excessive logging caused by malformed multipart form data

High · published May 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00745 · 54.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2025-05-15T21:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 MAY 21:17Z
    Tornado vulnerable to excessive logging caused by malformed multipart form data
    cvelistv5