CVE-2025-54121CWE-770

Starlette has possible denial-of-service vector when parsing large files in multipart forms

Medium · published July 21, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) framework/toolkit, designed for building async web services in Python. In versions 0.47.1 and below, when parsing a multi-part form with large files (greater than the default max spool size) starlette will block the main thread to roll the file over to disk. This blocks the event thread which means the application can't accept new connections. The UploadFile code has a minor bug where instead of just checking for self._in_memory, the logic should also check if the additional bytes will cause a rollover. The vulnerability is fixed in version 0.47.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00660 · 50.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2025-07-21T20:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 JUL 20:06Z
    Starlette has possible denial-of-service vector when parsing large files in multipart forms
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