CVE-2024-53981 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Python-multipart
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 69.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 2
Latest updateFeb 11
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 proc…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6