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CVE-2024-47874: Starlette Denial of service (DoS) via multipart/form-data

October 15, 2024

Starlette treats multipart/form-data parts without a filename as text form fields and buffers those in byte strings with no size limit. This allows an attacker to upload arbitrary large form fields and cause Starlette to both slow down significantly due to excessive memory allocations and copy operations, and also consume more and more memory until the server starts swapping and grinds to a halt, or the OS terminates the server process with an OOM error. Uploading multiple such requests in parallel may be enough to render a service practically unusable, even if reasonable request size limits are enforced by a reverse proxy in front of Starlette.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-f96h-pmfr-66vw
  • github.com/encode/starlette
  • github.com/encode/starlette/commit/fd038f3070c302bff17ef7d173dbb0b007617733
  • github.com/encode/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-f96h-pmfr-66vw
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47874

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.40.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.40.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.40.0 or above.

Impact

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

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Weakness

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

Source file

pypi/starlette/CVE-2024-47874.yml

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