CVE-2026-42561CWE-606CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-42561

High · published May 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.27, python-multipart has a denial of service vulnerability in multipart part header parsing. When parsing multipart/form-data, MultipartParser previously had no limit on the number of part headers or the size of an individual part header. An attacker could send a request with either many repeated headers without terminating the header block or a single very large header value, causing excessive CPU work before request rejection or completion. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.27.

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
0.00849 · 57.7th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-606 · Unchecked Input for Loop Condition; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-05-14T01:16Z
References (12)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 MAY 20:55Z
    Python-Multipart: Denial of Service via unbounded multipart part headers
    cvelistv5