Description
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.
Published: 2026-10-26
Score: 2.1 Low
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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History

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0100

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Description 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.
Title Tornado: Open redirect in RedirectHandler via protocol-relative URLs
Weaknesses CWE-601
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 2.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N'}


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Tornadoweb Tornado
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-26T20:22:32.217Z

Reserved: 2026-10-26T15:03:39.035Z

Link: CVE-2026-116578

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-26T21:18:14.747

Modified: 2026-10-26T21:18:15.077

Link: CVE-2026-116578

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-26T23:45:13Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-601

    URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')