Description
Tornado before 6.4.1 ignores duplicate Transfer-Encoding: chunked headers, treating requests as having no message body and parsing the chunked body as a subsequent request. Attackers can exploit this inconsistency when Tornado is deployed behind proxies to perform HTTP request smuggling, enabling access control bypass, cache poisoning, or connection desynchronization.
Published: 2026-09-15
Score: 9 Critical
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Tornado before 6.4.1 ignores duplicate Transfer-Encoding: chunked headers, treating requests as having no message body and parsing the chunked body as a subsequent request. Attackers can exploit this inconsistency when Tornado is deployed behind proxies to perform HTTP request smuggling, enabling access control bypass, cache poisoning, or connection desynchronization.
Title Tornado before 6.4.1 HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding
First Time appeared Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado
Weaknesses CWE-444
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:tornadoweb:tornado:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Tornadoweb
Tornadoweb tornado
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N'}


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Tornadoweb Tornado
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-15T17:09:00.298Z

Reserved: 2026-03-23T19:30:06.622Z

Link: CVE-2024-14029

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-15T16:17:06.893

Modified: 2026-09-15T16:17:06.893

Link: CVE-2024-14029

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-15T16:45:06Z

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