0.0
LOW
CVE-2024-47874
Starlette Multipart Form Field Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

Starlette is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework/toolkit. Prior to version 0.40.0, 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. This Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affects all applications built with Starlette (or FastAPI) accepting form requests. Verison 0.40.0 fixes this issue.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 15, 2024, 4:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

0.0

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-47874 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Encode starlette
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/encode/starlette/commit/fd038f3070c302bff17ef7d173dbb0b007617733
https://github.com/encode/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-f96h-pmfr-66vw

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  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Oct. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 CISA-ADP AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Starlette is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework/toolkit. Prior to version 0.40.0, 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. This Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affects all applications built with Starlette (or FastAPI) accepting form requests. Verison 0.40.0 fixes this issue.
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/encode/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-f96h-pmfr-66vw [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/encode/starlette/commit/fd038f3070c302bff17ef7d173dbb0b007617733 [No types assigned]
    Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-770
    Added CVSS V4.0 GitHub, Inc. CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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