CVEPublished 2023-10-25Modified 2026-05-201 article on news6 live referencesNVD data

CVE-2023-46136Palletsprojects · Werkzeug

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
8.0
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
69
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 31% of all CVEs
Description

Werkzeug is a comprehensive WSGI web application library. In versions on the 3.x branch prior to 3.0.1 and on the 2.x branch prior to 2.3.8, 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. This vulnerability has been patched in version 3.0.1 and 2.3.8.

Timeline
Published 2023-10-25
Modified 2026-05-20

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