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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-53538 EUVD-2026-38323GHSA-6jv3-5f52-599mPYSEC-2026-3037

Python-Multipart: Semicolon treated as querystring field separator enables parameter smuggling

Published Jun 22, 2026 · Updated Jun 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.30, QuerystringParser treated ; as a field separator in application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies, in addition to &. The WHATWG URL standard, modern browsers, and Python's urllib.parse (since the CVE-2021-23336 fix) treat only & as a separator. This creates a parser differential: the same bytes are tokenized into different fields than a WHATWG compliant intermediary would produce, allowing an attacker to smuggle extra form fields past an upstream body inspecting component. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.30.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Kludex python-multipart < 0.0.30 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-multipart 0.0.32-1 —
Debian 13 python-multipart No fix yet —
Debian 12 python-multipart No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-multipart No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-multipart No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 python-multipart No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS python-multipart No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS python-multipart No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 python-python-multipart 0.0.20-160000.5.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22372-1
SLES 16.0 python-python-multipart 0.0.20-160000.5.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22372-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-python-multipart 0.0.32-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11099-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-python-multipart 0.0.20-160000.5.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21066-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling airflow-3 3.2.2-r7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI python-multipart < 0.0.30 0.0.30 GHSA-6jv3-5f52-599m

Advisories 3

References