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HIGH 7.5 PyPI

Tornado has an HTTP cookie parsing DoS vulnerability

GHSA-8w49-h785-mj3c · CVE-2024-52804

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Description

The algorithm used for parsing HTTP cookies in Tornado versions prior to 6.4.2 sometimes has quadratic complexity, leading to excessive CPU consumption when parsing maliciously-crafted cookie headers. This parsing occurs in the event loop thread and may block the processing of other requests.

See also CVE-2024-7592 for a similar vulnerability in cpython.

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