CVE-2024-49767

Updated on 25 Oct 2024

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

Werkzeug is a Web Server Gateway Interface web application library. Applications using werkzeug.formparser.MultiPartParser corresponding to a version of Werkzeug prior to 3.0.6 to parse multipart/form-data requests (e.g. all flask applications) are vulnerable to a relatively simple but effective resource exhaustion (denial of service) attack. A specifically crafted form submission request can cause the parser to allocate and block 3 to 8 times the upload size in main memory. There is no upper limit; a single upload at 1 Gbit/s can exhaust 32 GB of RAM in less than 60 seconds. Werkzeug version 3.0.6 fixes this issue.

Details

Affected product:
Flask , Werkzeug
Affected packages:
werkzeug @ 2.3.8 (+5 more)
Werkzeug is a Web Server Gateway Interface web application library. Applications using werkzeug.formparser.MultiPartParser corresponding to a version of Werkzeug prior to 3.0.6 to parse multipart/form-data requests (e.g. all flask applications) are vulnerable to a relatively simple but effective resource exhaustion (denial of service) attack. A specifically crafted form submission request can cause the parser to allocate and block 3 to 8 times the upload size in main memory. There is no upper limit; a single upload at 1 Gbit/s can exhaust 32 GB of RAM in less than 60 seconds. Werkzeug version 3.0.6 fixes this issue.

Fixes