Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting quart package, versions [,0.19.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-QUART-8309093
  • published 27 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 25 Oct 2024
  • credit Marcel Hellkamp

How to fix?

Upgrade Quart to version 0.19.7 or higher.

Overview

Quart is an A Python ASGI web microframework with the same API as Flask

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in formparser.MultiPartParser(). An attacker can cause the parser to consume more memory than the upload size, in excess of max_form_memory_size, by sending malicious data in a non-file field of a multipart/form-data request.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    Low
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None