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Low · 2.1 CVE-2026-116578 EUVD-2026-110319GHSA-pw9p-v7r6-gx4p

Tornado: Open redirect in RedirectHandler via protocol-relative URLs

Published Oct 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.6, tornado.web.RedirectHandler URL templates can place regex-capture substitutions where crafted request paths change the redirect scheme or network location. Affected placements include substitutions at the start of a path, directly after a fixed host, or at the beginning of the template, including protocol-relative, absolute, backslash, encoded, host-extension, and user-info variants interpreted by browsers as attacker-controlled destinations. Static templates and substitutions after a fixed host followed by a slash are not affected. An attacker can use the resulting open redirect on the application's domain for phishing. This issue is fixed in version 6.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tornadoweb tornado < 6.6 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-tornado No fix yet —
Debian 13 python-tornado No fix yet —
Debian 12 python-tornado No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS python-tornado No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-tornado6 6.6-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12440-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-tornado No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling dask-kubernetes 2026.3.0-r21 —
Wolfi rolling mitmproxy 12.3.1-r3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI tornado < 6.6 6.6 GHSA-pw9p-v7r6-gx4p

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