CVE-2023-46136

Advisory

Werkzeug is a comprehensive WSGI web application library. If an upload of a file that starts with CR or LF and then is followed by megabytes of data without these characters: all of these bytes are appended chunk by chunk into internal bytearray and lookup for boundary is performed on growing buffer. This allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending crafted multipart data to an endpoint that will parse it. The amount of CPU time required can block worker processes from handling legitimate requests.

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Resources

• https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/security/advisories/GHSA-hrfv-mqp8-q5rw
• https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/commit/f3c803b3ade485a45f12b6d6617595350c0f03e2
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-46136