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

Advisory record · `GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56` · `CVE-2026-49855` · `PYSEC-2026-3389`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-409](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/409.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-409](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-409.md)
- **Published:** 15 Jun 2026
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 15 Jun 2026, 20:19 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `tornado` (PyPI): affected `<6.5.6`; fixed in `6.5.6`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Tornado versions before 6.5.6 are vulnerable to a gzip decompression bomb: the gzip decompression code has no overall limit on the total decompressed size, only on the compressed size. A malicious server that a client connects to via SimpleAsyncHTTPClient in its default configuration can make it consume effectively unlimited memory. Upgrade tornado to 6.5.6 or later; before upgrading, set decompress_response to False or use CurlAsyncHTTPClient.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.5 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0057, the 47th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56)
- [OSV: GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56)
- <https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-mgf9-4vpg-hj56>
- <https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

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