CVE-2024-49769
HIGHWaitress < 3.0.1 - Denial of Service via Connection Cleanup Race Condition
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0138
EPSS Percentile
68.4%
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