ghsa-59g5-xgcq-4qw3
Vulnerability from github
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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
{ "affected": [ { "package": { "ecosystem": "PyPI", "name": "python-multipart" }, "ranges": [ { "events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "0.0.18" } ], "type": "ECOSYSTEM" } ] } ], "aliases": [ "CVE-2024-53981" ], "database_specific": { "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-770" ], "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2024-12-02T21:37:04Z", "nvd_published_at": "2024-12-02T16:15:14Z", "severity": "HIGH" }, "details": "### Summary\n\nWhen 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.\n\nAn 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).\n\n### Impact\n\nApplications that use `python-multipart` to parse form data (or use frameworks that do so) are affected. \n\n### Original Report\n\nThis security issue was reported by:\n- GitHub security advisory in Starlette on October 30 by @Startr4ck\n- Email to `python-multipart` maintainer on October 3 by @mnqazi", "id": "GHSA-59g5-xgcq-4qw3", "modified": "2024-12-02T21:37:04Z", "published": "2024-12-02T21:37:04Z", "references": [ { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/security/advisories/GHSA-59g5-xgcq-4qw3" }, { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53981" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "https://github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/commit/c4fe4d3cebc08c660e57dd709af1ffa7059b3177" }, { "type": "PACKAGE", "url": "https://github.com/Kludex/python-multipart" } ], "schema_version": "1.4.0", "severity": [ { "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "type": "CVSS_V3" }, { "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N", "type": "CVSS_V4" } ], "summary": "Denial of service (DoS) via deformation `multipart/form-data` boundary" }
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