UBUNTU-CVE-2026-116578: Low severity ubuntu/python-tornado vulnerability

Published Oct 26, 2026
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Updated

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 Software

7 affected components
ubuntu/python-tornado*
ubuntu/python-tornado*
ubuntu/python-tornado*
ubuntu/python-tornado*
ubuntu/python-tornado*
ubuntu/python-tornado*
ubuntu/python-tornado*

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Tornado to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 6.6

Event History

Oct 26, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·09:18 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·09:18 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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