CVE-2023-46136

HIGH

Werkzeug - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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. This vulnerability has been patched in version 3.0.1.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC
by JawadPy · poc
https://github.com/JawadPy/WerkGhost

Scores

CVSS v3 8.0
EPSS 0.0057
EPSS Percentile 68.8%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-407 CWE-400 CWE-787
Status published
Products (3)
palletsprojects/werkzeug 3.0.0
palletsprojects/werkzeug < 2.3.8
pypi/werkzeug 3.0.0 - 3.0.1PyPI
Published Oct 25, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026