Denial of service in Starlette



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-47874
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 starlette
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor Encode

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU98820

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [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 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

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.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

starlette: 0.1.0 - 0.39.2

CPE2.3 External links

https://github.com/encode/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-f96h-pmfr-66vw
https://github.com/encode/starlette/commit/fd038f3070c302bff17ef7d173dbb0b007617733


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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