GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-v853-p72q-4cfw Quart leaks raw request body (incl. plaintext passwords) to stdout via stray debug print in Body.__await__

HIGH Published 2026-10-05 Modified 2026-10-05 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
quart
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-532
Reviewed
2026-10-05

Affected packages

• PyPI quart: >= 0.23.0, < 0.23.1 → fixed in 0.23.1

Description

Summary Quart 0.23.0 contains a stray debug statement (`print(data)`) inside `Body.__await__` in `quart/wrappers/request.py`. Any request whose body is awaited — `await request.form`, `await request.get_data()`, WTForms `validate_on_submit()`, etc. — has its raw, unparsed body printed to stdout, including plaintext form fields such as passwords and CSRF tokens. Confirmed present in 0.23.0, confirmed absent in 0.22.0. Details In `src/quart/wrappers/request.py`, `Body.__await__` accumulates the request body into a bytearray: ​```python data = bytearray() while not self._queue.empty(): data.extend(self._queue.get_nowait()) print(data) # self._max_content_length ): raise RequestEntityTooLarge() ​``` This fires for every request that awaits its body — the overwhelming majority of POST/PUT routes in a typical Quart app (form submissions, JSON APIs via `request.get_json()`, file uploads, etc.). PoC 1. `pip install quart==0.23.0` (requires Python 3.13+) 2. Minimal route: ​```python @app.route("/login", methods=["POST"]) async def login(): form_data = await request.form ... ​``` 3. Submit a POST with form data, e.g. a login form with `staff_id`/`password` fields. 4. Observe stdout: the full raw body is printed as `bytearray(b'csrf_token=...&staff_id=...&password=...')`. Confirmed via source diff against 0.22.0's `request.py`, where this line does not exist. Impact Any app that captures stdout in logs (terminal redirect, systemd/journald, Docker logs, cloud log aggregation, etc.) will have every submitted form body — including login credentials — written to logs in plaintext. This affects any Quart 0.23.0 app handling authentication or any sensitive form data, and is trivially triggerable by any user simply submitting a form (no attacker action required beyond normal use).

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness

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