CVE-2025-54121
MEDIUMPypi Starlette < 0.47.2 - Resource Allocation Without Limits
Title source: ruleDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/encode/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-2c2j-9gv5-cj73
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/encode/starlette/commit/9f7ec2eb512fcc3fe90b43cb9dd9e1d08696bec1
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/encode/starlette/blob/fa5355442753f794965ae1af0f87f9fec1b9a3de/starlette/datastructures.py#L436C5-L447C14
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/encode/starlette/discussions/2927#discussioncomment-13721403
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