Kurz gesagt
- CVE-2024-53981 ist eine Schwachstelle (HOCH (CVSS 7.5)) in python-multipart.
- Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Ausnutzung in den nächsten 30 Tagen (EPSS): 0.64%, höher als bei 50.5% aller Schwachstellen.
- Abhilfe: auf 0.0.18 oder neuer aktualisieren.
Description
Summary
When parsing form data, python-multipart skips line breaks (CR \r or LF \n) in front of the first boundary and any tailing bytes after the last boundary. This happens one byte at a time and emits a log event each time, which may cause excessive logging for certain inputs.
An attacker could abuse this by sending a malicious request with lots of data before the first or after the last boundary, causing high CPU load and stalling the processing thread for a significant amount of time. In case of ASGI application, this could stall the event loop and prevent other requests from being processed, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).
Impact
Applications that use python-multipart to parse form data (or use frameworks that do so) are affected.
Original Report
This security issue was reported by:
- GitHub security advisory in Starlette on October 30 by @Startr4ck
- Email to
python-multipart maintainer on October 3 by @mnqazi
NVD description
python-multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. When parsing form data, python-multipart skips line breaks (CR \r or LF \n) in front of the first boundary and any tailing bytes after the last boundary. This happens one byte at a time and emits a log event each time, which may cause excessive logging for certain inputs. An attacker could abuse this by sending a malicious request with lots of data before the first or after the last boundary, causing high CPU load and stalling the processing thread for a significant amount of time. In case of ASGI application, this could stall the event loop and prevent other requests from being processed, resulting in a denial of service (DoS). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.18.
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