CVE-2024-49769 (GCVE-0-2024-49769)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-29 14:18 – Updated: 2024-11-17 00:11
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Title
Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
Summary
Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.
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-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Pylons waitress Affected: < 3.0.1
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