Security Advisory
CVE-2026-49854
5.3
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, the optional native extension tornado.speedups implemented websocket_mask without validating that the mask argument is exactly four bytes, allowing the C function to read up to three bytes beyond the provided buffer when reached through Tornado XSRF token decoding with the native extension active. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.
Published Date
July 14, 2026
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory