CVE-2024-49769

HIGH

Waitress - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0118
EPSS Percentile 78.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (2)
agendaless/waitress < 3.0.1
pypi/waitress 0 - 3.0.1PyPI
Published Oct 29, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026