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[Snyk] Security upgrade tornado from 6.5.7 to 6.5.9 - #16417

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Snyk has created this PR to fix 2 vulnerabilities in the pip dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

  • extensions/positron-python/python_files/ipykernel_requirements/cp3-requirements.txt

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…p3-requirements.txt to reduce vulnerabilities

The following vulnerabilities are fixed by pinning transitive dependencies:
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-20415626
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-TORNADO-20415627
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Merge Risk: Medium

This is a patch version upgrade for Tornado that includes security enhancements.

Behavioral Change in 6.5.8:

  • To prevent potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, version 6.5.8 introduces a default limit of 1000 arguments for form-encoded POST bodies.

This is a security-driven behavioral change that could impact applications that legitimately process forms with a very high number of fields. If your application is affected, this limit can be adjusted using the set_parse_body_config function.

No specific release notes were found for version 6.5.9, suggesting it likely contains minor bug fixes. The primary risk to consider is the change introduced in 6.5.8.

Recommendation:
Verify if any of your application's endpoints process more than 1000 form arguments in a single POST request. Adjust the configuration if necessary.

Source: Tornado 6.5.8 Release Notes

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