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CVE-2024-49769: Waitress vulnerable to DoS leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion

October 29, 2024 (updated January 21, 2025)

When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won’t correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function.

A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required.

References

  • github.com/Pylons/waitress
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435
  • github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/waitress/PYSEC-2024-211.yaml
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00012.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49769

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Affected versions

All versions before 3.0.1

Fixed versions

  • 3.0.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.0.1 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-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Source file

pypi/waitress/CVE-2024-49769.yml

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