CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-42561
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-13
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-606, CWE-770
Description
Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.27, python-multipart has a denial of service vulnerability in multipart part header parsing. When parsing multipart/form-data, MultipartParser previously had no limit on the number of part headers or the size of an individual part header. An attacker could send a request with either many repeated headers without terminating the header block or a single very large header value, causing excessive CPU work before request rejection or completion. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.27.
Related
References
- https://github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/security/advisories/GHSA-pp6c-gr5w-3c5g github.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37275 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42132 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42142 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43038 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:44696 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51194 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51219 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51357 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42561 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477309 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42561.json security.access.redhat.com