CVE-2025-54121

MEDIUM

Pypi Starlette < 0.47.2 - Resource Allocation Without Limits

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) framework/toolkit, designed for building async web services in Python. In versions 0.47.1 and below, when parsing a multi-part form with large files (greater than the default max spool size) starlette will block the main thread to roll the file over to disk. This blocks the event thread which means the application can't accept new connections. The UploadFile code has a minor bug where instead of just checking for self._in_memory, the logic should also check if the additional bytes will cause a rollover. The vulnerability is fixed in version 0.47.2.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 45.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (2)
encode/starlette < 0.47.2
pypi/starlette 0 - 0.47.2PyPI
Published Jul 21, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026