CVE-2024-47874 (Low) detected in starlette-0.27.0-py3-none-any.whl

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CVE-2024-47874 - Low Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - starlette-0.27.0-py3-none-any.whl

The little ASGI library that shines.

Library home page: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/58/f8/e2cca22387965584a409795913b774235752be4176d276714e15e1a58884/starlette-0.27.0-py3-none-any.whl

Path to dependency file: /backend/requirements.txt

Path to vulnerable library: /backend/requirements.txt,/backend/requirements.txt

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ starlette-0.27.0-py3-none-any.whl (Vulnerable Library)

Found in base branch: dev

Vulnerability Details

Starlette is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework/toolkit. Prior to version 0.40.0, Starlette treats multipart/form-data parts without a filename as text form fields and buffers those in byte strings with no size limit. This allows an attacker to upload arbitrary large form fields and cause Starlette to both slow down significantly due to excessive memory allocations and copy operations, and also consume more and more memory until the server starts swapping and grinds to a halt, or the OS terminates the server process with an OOM error. Uploading multiple such requests in parallel may be enough to render a service practically unusable, even if reasonable request size limits are enforced by a reverse proxy in front of Starlette. This Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affects all applications built with Starlette (or FastAPI) accepting form requests. Verison 0.40.0 fixes this issue.

Publish Date: 2024-10-15

URL: CVE-2024-47874

CVSS 3 Score Details (0.0)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47874

Release Date: 2024-10-15

Fix Resolution: starlette - 0.40.0

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