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[GHSA] GHSA-mpf4-983q-p7j4 (high) — Tornado: Urlencoded body parsing omits max_num_fields, so one request can stall the event loop

highgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-09-02

GHSA-mpf4-983q-p7j4 Severity: high CVE: CVE-2026-82397

Tornado: Urlencoded body parsing omits max_num_fields, so one request can stall the event loop

## Summary

Tornado parses `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` bodies with `urllib.parse.parse_qs` and does not pass `max_num_fields`. A body made almost entirely of separators produces tens of millions of fields, and the parse happens on the even

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mpf4-983q-p7j4