Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting python-multipart package, versions [,0.0.18)
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- published3 Dec 2024
- disclosed2 Dec 2024
- creditStartr4ck, mnqazi
Introduced: 2 Dec 2024
CVE-2024-53981 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade python-multipart to version 0.0.18 or higher.
Overview
python-multipart is an A streaming multipart parser for Python
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the multipart/form-data, when line breaks: CR \r or LF \n in front of the first boundary and any tailing bytes after the last boundary are skipped. An attacker can cause excessive logging and high CPU load, stalling the processing thread by sending a malicious request with lots of data.