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HTTP request smuggling In python-tornado

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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