CVE-2024-49769 HIGH

CVE-2024-49769: Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion

Vendor Pylons
Product waitress
Weakness CWE-772
Published October 29, 2024
Last update November 17, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 29, 2024 CVE published
November 17, 2024 Record updated