CVE-2026-42561

Python-Multipart: Denial of Service via unbounded multipart part headers

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
May 13, 2026
Updated
Aug 7, 2026
Reserved
Apr 28, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-606 Unchecked Input for Loop Condition

Affected Products

ProductVersions
python-multipartKludex
  • < 0.0.27Affected

References

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