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CVE-2024-53981: Denial of service (DoS) via deformation `multipart/form-data` boundary

December 2, 2024

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).

References

  • github.com/Kludex/python-multipart
  • github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/commit/c4fe4d3cebc08c660e57dd709af1ffa7059b3177
  • github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/security/advisories/GHSA-59g5-xgcq-4qw3
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-59g5-xgcq-4qw3
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53981

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.0.18

Fixed versions

  • 0.0.18

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.0.18 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

pypi/python-multipart/CVE-2024-53981.yml

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