CVE-2023-25578 (GCVE-0-2023-25578)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-15 14:58
Modified
2025-03-10 21:10
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
Starlite is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to version 1.5.2, the request body parsing in `starlite` allows a potentially unauthenticated attacker to consume a large amount of CPU time and RAM. The multipart body parser processes an unlimited number of file parts and an unlimited number of field parts. This is a remote, potentially unauthenticated Denial of Service vulnerability. This vulnerability affects applications with a request handler that accepts a `Body(media_type=RequestEncodingType.MULTI_PART)`. The large amount of CPU time required for processing requests can block all available worker processes and significantly delay or slow down the processing of legitimate user requests. The large amount of RAM accumulated while processing requests can lead to Out-Of-Memory kills. Complete DoS is achievable by sending many concurrent multipart requests in a loop. Version 1.51.2 contains a patch for this issue.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/starlite-api/starlite/commit/9674fe803628f986c03fe60769048cbc55b5bf83Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/starlite-api/starlite/releases/tag/v1.51.2Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/starlite-api/starlite/security/advisories/GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6qExploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/starlite-api/starlite/commit/9674fe803628f986c03fe60769048cbc55b5bf83Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/starlite-api/starlite/releases/tag/v1.51.2Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/starlite-api/starlite/security/advisories/GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6qExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
starlite-api starlite Version: < 1.51.2
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