CVE-2023-25578CWE-770

Starlite DoS vulnerability when parsing multipart request body

High · published February 15, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
62.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Starlite is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to version 1.5.2, the request body parsing in `starlite` allows a potentially unauthenticated attacker to consume a large amount of CPU time and RAM. The multipart body parser processes an unlimited number of file parts and an unlimited number of field parts. This is a remote, potentially unauthenticated Denial of Service vulnerability. This vulnerability affects applications with a request handler that accepts a `Body(media_type=RequestEncodingType.MULTI_PART)`. The large amount of CPU time required for processing requests can block all available worker processes and significantly delay or slow down the processing of legitimate user requests. The large amount of RAM accumulated while processing requests can lead to Out-Of-Memory kills. Complete DoS is achievable by sending many concurrent multipart requests in a loop. Version 1.51.2 contains a patch for this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01013 · 62.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2023-02-15T14:58Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 FEB 14:58Z
    Starlite DoS vulnerability when parsing multipart request body
    cvelistv5