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Medium 6.5
Uncaught Exception (due to a data race) leads to process termination in Waitress
Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. Waitress versions 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 may terminate early due to a thread closing a socket while the main thread is about to call select(). This will lead to the main thread raising an exceptio…
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Medium 5.7CVE-2020-5236 Public exploit
Catastrophic backtracking in regex allows Denial of Service in Waitress
Waitress version 1.4.2 allows a DOS attack When waitress receives a header that contains invalid characters. When a header like "Bad-header: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\x10" is received, it will cause the regular expression engine to catastrophically backtrack causing th…