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High · 7.5 CVE-2023-25578 EUVD-2023-0246GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6qPYSEC-2023-49

Starlite DoS vulnerability when parsing multipart request body

Published Feb 15, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Starlite is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to version 1.5.2, the request body parsing in `starlite` allows a potentially unauthenticated attacker to consume a large amount of CPU time and RAM. The multipart body parser processes an unlimited number of file parts and an unlimited number of field parts. This is a remote, potentially unauthenticated Denial of Service vulnerability. This vulnerability affects applications with a request handler that accepts a `Body(media_type=RequestEncodingType.MULTI_PART)`. The large amount of CPU time required for processing requests can block all available worker processes and significantly delay or slow down the processing of legitimate user requests. The large amount of RAM accumulated while processing requests can lead to Out-Of-Memory kills. Complete DoS is achievable by sending many concurrent multipart requests in a loop. Version 1.51.2 contains a patch for this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
starlite-api starlite < 1.51.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI starlite < 1.51.2 1.51.2 GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6q

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