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Tornado 6.5.8 security fixes

Type: patchSources: Tornado

Tornado 6.5.8 adds limits to form-encoded POST arguments and multipart parts to reduce denial-of-service risks, and applies invalid-character restrictions to deprecated mixed-case cookie arguments.

Products
Tornado
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.5.8
CVEs
Not specified
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Tornado 6.5.8 security fixes

github-tornadoweb-tornado · Original source

Published 7 Aug 2026, 01:56 UTC

Tornado 6.5.8 adds limits to form-encoded POST arguments and multipart parts to reduce denial-of-service risks, and applies invalid-character restrictions to deprecated mixed-case cookie arguments.

v6.5.8: What's new in Tornado 6.5.8 Aug 6, 2026 Security fixes - Form-encoded ``POST`` bodies are now subject to a limit of 1000 arguments by default. This prevents a CPU and memory denial of service attack.

Tornado

Fixed versions: 6.5.8

Complete source record
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