Low severity · published Oct 26, 2026
CVE-2026-116578
Tornado: Open redirect in RedirectHandler via protocol-relative URLs
New
2.1
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TO
tornado · tornadoweb
< 6.6 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116578
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116578
github.com
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/940ea725bdd9bc68231d68a105eef17ea6e11233
github.com
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/cc75ab0eb3af459c714895a49f682ad354f50117
github.com
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/ccb6a2e5482f17997efd4a74b8200d5b4babc035
github.com
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/pull/3786
github.com
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/releases/tag/v6.6.0
github.com
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-pw9p-v7r6-gx4p
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