7.5
HIGH
CVE-2024-49769
Waitress DoS Lockup Vulnerability
Description

Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. 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. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 29, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 9:41 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-49769 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 Agendaless waitress
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00012.html
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c No Types Assigned https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418 No Types Assigned https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418 Issue Tracking
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435 No Types Assigned https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6 No Types Assigned https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6 Vendor Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:agendaless:waitress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.0.1
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 29, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. 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. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c [No types assigned]
    Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-772
    Added CVSS V3.1 GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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