CVE 3.7 LOW

Python-Multipart: Semicolon treated as querystring field separator enables parameter smuggling_CVE-2026-53538

3.7 / 10
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-53538
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 22, 2026 at 16:56

Affected Product

Vendor Kludex
Product python-multipart
Version < 0.0.30
Affected Versions Kludex python-multipart < 0.0.30

CWE Classification

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