CVE-2024-49769CWE-772

Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion

High · published October 29, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
71.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.01377 · 71.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Published
2024-10-29T14:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 OCT 14:18Z
    Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
    cvelistv5