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High ALAS2023-2026-2015 3 CVEs

Important: python3.13-tornado security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 3, 2026 · Updated Aug 4, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-49855: Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6. CVE-2026-49854: Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, the optional native extension tornado.speedups implemented websocket_mask without validating that the mask argument is exactly four bytes, allowing the C function to read up to three bytes beyond the provided buffer when reached through Tornado XSRF token decoding with the native extension active. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6. CVE-2026-49853: Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, SimpleAsyncHTTPClient shallow-copied redirected requests and removed only the Host header, leaving Authorization, auth_username, auth_password, and auth_mode in place when a redirect changed scheme, host, or port. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3.13-tornado 0:6.4.2-1.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3.13-tornado-debuginfo 0:6.4.2-1.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3.13-tornado-debugsource 0:6.4.2-1.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3.13-tornado-doc 0:6.4.2-1.amzn2023.0.4

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.7

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

    Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, SimpleAsyncHTTPClient shallow-copied redirected requests and removed only the Host header, leaving Authorization, auth_username, auth_password, and auth_mode in place when …

  • High 7.5

    tornado AsyncHTTPClient accumulates decompressed chunks without size limit (gzip bomb)

    Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server acces…

  • Medium 5.3

    Tornado: Out-of-bounds memory access in C extension

    Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, the optional native extension tornado.speedups implemented websocket_mask without validating that the mask argument is exactly four bytes, allowing the C function to read u…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-49853.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-49854.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-49855.html