What is CVE-2024-52581?

CVE-2024-52581 is a high-severity vulnerability in Litestar, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-11-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-52581?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Litestar

CVE-2024-52581

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to version 2.13.0, the multipart form parser shipped with litestar expects the entire request body as a single byte string and there is no default limit for the t…

EPSS: 0.008 (51.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Litestar
Litestar-org Litestar — versions < 2.13.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (Product, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52581?: CVE-2024-52581 is a high-severity vulnerability in Litestar, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-11-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-52581?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.