CVE 5.3 MEDIUM

Starlette has possible denial-of-service vector when parsing large files in multipart forms_CVE-2025-54121

5.3 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) framework/toolkit, designed for building async web services in Python. In versions 0.47.1 and below, when parsing a multi-part form with large files (greater than the default max spool size) starlette will block the main thread to roll the file over to disk. This blocks the event thread which means the application can't accept new connections. The UploadFile code has a minor bug where instead of just checking for self._in_memory, the logic should also check if the additional bytes will cause a rollover. The vulnerability is fixed in version 0.47.2.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-54121
Source GitHub_M
Published Jul 21, 2025 at 20:06
Modified Jul 22, 2025 at 19:54

Affected Product

Vendor encode
Product starlette
Version < 0.47.2
Affected Versions encode starlette < 0.47.2

CWE Classification

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