Description
Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.30, when parsing application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies, QuerystringParser located the field separator with a two step lookup: it first scanned the entire remaining buffer for &, and only when no & existed anywhere ahead did it fall back to scanning for ;. For a body that uses ; as the separator and contains no &, every field iteration performed a full failed & scan over the entire remaining buffer before locating the nearby ;. With N semicolon separated fields in a chunk of size B, this yields O(B^2) byte comparisons per chunk. An attacker can submit a small crafted body of the form a;a;a;... and cause the parser to spend seconds of CPU per request. A handful of concurrent requests can exhaust worker processes. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.30.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | python-multipart | 0.0.32-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | python-multipart | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | python-multipart | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS | python-multipart | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS | python-multipart | No fix yet | — |
SUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | python-python-multipart | 0.0.20-160000.5.1 | openSUSE-SU-2026:21066-1 |
Wolfi
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfi rolling | airflow-3 | 3.2.2-r7 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | python-multipart | < 0.0.30 | 0.0.30 | GHSA-5rvq-cxj2-64vf |
Advisories 2
- SUSE-SU-2026:22372-1 Security update for python-python-multipart SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Jul 2, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2026:21066-1 Security update for python-python-multipart SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Jun 30, 2026