CVE-2024-52804
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. The algorithm used for parsing HTTP cookies in Tornado versions prior to 6.4.2 sometimes has quadratic complexity, leading to excessive CPU consumption when parsing maliciously-crafted cookie headers. This parsing occurs in the event loop thread and may block the processing of other requests. Version 6.4.2 fixes the issue.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 1.04%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 63
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
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- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access85 % - Impacto principal
T1499.004Application or System Exploitationimpact90 %
Vulnerabilidad de complejidad cuadrática en parsing de cookies HTTP sin autenticación (AV:N, PR:N, UI:N) que causa consumo excesivo de CPU, bloqueando el procesamiento de solicitudes legítimas en una aplicación web expuesta (T1190). El impacto es DoS de aplicación basado en recursos (T1499.004).
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-400, CWE-770
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