Resource exhaustion in python-multipart - CVE-2024-53981

Vulnerability identifier: #VU101391

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53981

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application generates excessive log entries when parsing form data. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

python-multipart
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
Fedora
python-multipart (Ubuntu package)
python311-python-multipart
python-multipart
python-python-multipart
APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift

Install updates from vendor's website.

python-multipart - update to 0.0.18
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.10.0
python-multipart (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.0.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, 0.0.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
python311-python-multipart - update to 0.0.9-150600.3.3.1
python-multipart - update to 0.0.19-1.fc40
python-python-multipart - update to 0.0.19-1.fc41
APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift - update to 03.01.02.00

• https://github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/commit/c4fe4d3cebc08c660e57dd709af1ffa7059b3177
• https://github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/security/advisories/GHSA-59g5-xgcq-4qw3

• Denial of service in python-multipart
• Fedora 40 update for python-multipart
• Fedora 41 update for python-python-multipart
• SUSE update for python-python-multipart
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps
• Ubuntu update for python-multipart