What is CVE-2024-53981?

CVE-2024-53981 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kludex Python-multipart, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-12-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-53981?

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

Is CVE-2024-53981 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Kludex Python-multipart

CVE-2024-53981

python-multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. When parsing form data, python-multipart skips line breaks (CR \r or LF \n) in front of the first boundary and any tailing bytes after the last boundary. This happens one byte at…

EPSS: 0.001 (30.7th 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

Kludex Python-multipart — versions < 0.0.18

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-53981?: CVE-2024-53981 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kludex Python-multipart, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-12-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-53981?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-53981 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.