Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. In versions through 6.6.0, applications using tornado.web.RedirectHandler with URL templates that allow attacker-controlled substitutions to influence the destination can be vulnerable to an open redirect using three or more leading slashes. Differences between Python’s URL parsing and browser URL interpretation allow a crafted destination to redirect a user to an attacker-controlled host. The remediation for CVE-2026-116578 in version 6.6.0 did not fully address this case. This issue is fixed in version 6.6.1.
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/security/advisories/GHSA-5cjw-f85j-cv6r
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commit/c503241622c0efe7c40110d89834ce8b7fead1e4