CVE-2026-53539CWE-400CWE-407

Python-Multipart: Quadratic-time querystring parsing with semicolon separators causes CPU denial of service

High · published June 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.30, when parsing application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies, QuerystringParser located the field separator with a two step lookup: it first scanned the entire remaining buffer for &, and only when no & existed anywhere ahead did it fall back to scanning for ;. For a body that uses ; as the separator and contains no &, every field iteration performed a full failed & scan over the entire remaining buffer before locating the nearby ;. With N semicolon separated fields in a chunk of size B, this yields O(B^2) byte comparisons per chunk. An attacker can submit a small crafted body of the form a;a;a;... and cause the parser to spend seconds of CPU per request. A handful of concurrent requests can exhaust worker processes. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.30.

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
0.00460 · 38.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-407 · Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Published
2026-06-22T16:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUN 16:55Z
    Python-Multipart: Quadratic-time querystring parsing with semicolon separators causes CPU denial of service
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