Resource exhaustion in waitress - CVE-2024-49769

Vulnerability identifier: #VU99623

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-2024-49769

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 does not properly clean up connections. A remote attacker can force the server to open all available sockets and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

waitress
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Package Hub 15
Python 3 Module
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Ubuntu
Fedora
python3-waitress (Ubuntu package)
python3-waitress
python2-waitress
python-waitress
python-waitress (Red Hat package)
python-waitress-help
mingw-python-waitress
python311-waitress-doc
python311-waitress
kata-containers (Red Hat package)
openshift (Red Hat package)
openshift-ansible (Red Hat package)
kernel-rt (Red Hat package)
IBM Process Mining
PowerVC
Red Hat OpenStack
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Install updates from vendor's website.

waitress - update to 3.0.1
python3-waitress (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 1.4.1-1ubuntu0.2, 1.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1, 3.0.0-1ubuntu0.1
python3-waitress - update to 1.4.3-150000.3.9.1
python2-waitress - update to 1.4.3-150000.3.9.1
python3-waitress - addressed in versions 1.4.4-1, 2.0.0-5, 2.1.2-3
python2-waitress - update to 1.4.4-1
python-waitress - addressed in versions 1.4.4-1, 2.0.0-5, 2.1.2-3
IBM Process Mining - update to 1.15.0 IF004
python-waitress (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.0.0-4.el8ost, 2.0.0-4.el9ost, 3.0.1-1.el9
PowerVC - addressed in versions 2.1.1.2, 2.3.0
python-waitress-help - update to 2.1.2-3
mingw-python-waitress - update to 2.1.2-7.fc40
python311-waitress-doc - update to 2.1.2-150400.12.7.1
python311-waitress - update to 2.1.2-150400.12.7.1
python-waitress - update to 3.0.1-1.fc41
kata-containers (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.7.0-4.rhaos4.16.el9, 3.7.0-4.rhaos4.17.el9
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.8.0
openshift (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 4.12.0-202411110730.p0.g1eb8682.assembly.stream.el8, 4.12.0-202411110730.p0.g1eb8682.assembly.stream.el9, 4.13.0-202411110736.p0.g53fd427.assembly.stream.el8, 4.13.0-202411110736.p0.g53fd427.assembly.stream.el9, 4.14.0-202411110739.p0.g03a907c.assembly.stream.el8, 4.14.0-202411110739.p0.g03a907c.assembly.stream.el9, 4.16.0-202411111337.p0.g7423cac.assembly.stream.el8, 4.16.0-202411111337.p0.g7423cac.assembly.stream.el9, 4.17.0-202411070335.p0.g82afd77.assembly.stream.el8, 4.17.0-202411070335.p0.g82afd77.assembly.stream.el9
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - addressed in versions 4.12.70, 4.12.72, 4.13.54, 4.14.41, 4.15.39, 4.16.23, 4.17.5
openshift-ansible (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 4.17.0-202411120704.p0.g5c737da.assembly.stream.el8, 4.17.0-202411120704.p0.g5c737da.assembly.stream.el9
kernel-rt (Red Hat package) - update to 4.18.0-372.131.1.rt7.291.el8_6
Red Hat OpenStack - addressed in versions 16.2, 17.1

• https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
• https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418
• https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435
• https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Waitress
• SUSE update for python-waitress
• Fedora 41 update for python-waitress
• openEuler 24.03 LTS update for python-waitress
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1 update for python-waitress
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP3 update for python-waitress
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4 update for python-waitress
• Fedora 40 update for mingw-python-waitress
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
• Ubuntu update for waitress
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 packages
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 packages
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 packages
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Process Mining
• SUSE update for python-waitress
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 packages
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenStack 16.2 packages
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenStack 17.1 packages
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenStack 17.1 packages
• IBM PowerVC update for Waitress WSGI Server
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP4 update for python-waitress