CVE-2024-53981

Publication date 2 December 2024

Last updated 12 February 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

python-multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. When parsing form data, python-multipart skips line breaks (CR \r or LF \n) in front of the first boundary and any tailing bytes after the last boundary. This happens one byte at a time and emits a log event each time, which may cause excessive logging for certain inputs. An attacker could abuse this by sending a malicious request with lots of data before the first or after the last boundary, causing high CPU load and stalling the processing thread for a significant amount of time. In case of ASGI application, this could stall the event loop and prevent other requests from being processed, resulting in a denial of service (DoS). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.18.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
python-multipart	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 0.0.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 0.0.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8027-1
Python-Multipart vulnerabilities
11 February 2026