Resource exhaustion in starlette - CVE-2024-47874
Published: October 18, 2024 / Updated: May 22, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU98820
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47874
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Encode
Affected software:
starlette
starlette
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application treats multipart/form-data parts without a filename as text form fields and buffers those in byte strings with no size limit. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-47874
Install updates from vendor's website.