CVE-2024-49769
Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Oct 29, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 18, 2024
Description
Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
waitressPylons |
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References
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00012.html
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