CVE-2024-47874CWE-770

Starlette Denial of service (DoS) via multipart/form-data

High · published October 15, 2024

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00653 · 50.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2024-10-15T15:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 OCT 15:45Z
    Starlette Denial of service (DoS) via multipart/form-data
    cvelistv5