{"answers":{"affected":"3 open source packages ship an affected version, including starlite. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-25578 exists.","fix":"Upgrade starlite to 1.51.2 or later.","what":"CVE-2023-25578 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in starlite-api starlite, published on 15 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-25578 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-25578 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in starlite-api starlite, published on 15 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-25578 exists.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- starlite (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.51.2\n- starlite (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.51.2\n- starlite (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.51.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-25578/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-25578/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-25578","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-25578/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-25578","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6q","PYSEC-2023-49"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Python ASGI framework","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can cause denial of service in Starlite applications by sending excessive multipart requests, consuming CPU and memory resources.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"starlite","vendor":"starliteproject"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-770","name":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling"}],"description":"Starlite is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to version 1.5.2, the request body parsing in `starlite` allows a potentially unauthenticated attacker to consume a large amount of CPU time and RAM. The multipart body parser processes an unlimited number of file parts and an unlimited number of field parts. This is a remote, potentially unauthenticated Denial of Service vulnerability. This vulnerability affects applications with a request handler that accepts a `Body(media_type=RequestEncodingType.MULTI_PART)`. The large amount of CPU time required for processing requests can block all available worker processes and significantly delay or slow down the processing of legitimate user requests. The large amount of RAM accumulated while processing requests can lead to Out-Of-Memory kills. Complete DoS is achievable by sending many concurrent multipart requests in a loop. Version 1.51.2 contains a patch for this issue.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Starlite DoS vulnerability when parsing multipart request body","id":"CVE-2023-25578","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":3,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Directory traversal in Nextcloud server","id":"CVE-2023-25579"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.51.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"starlite","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6q"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.51.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"starlite","purl":"pkg:pypi/starlite","source":"GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6q"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.51.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"starlite","purl":"pkg:pypi/starlite","source":"PYSEC-2023-49"}],"prev":{"headline":"Werkzeug may allow high resource usage when parsing multipart form data with many fields","id":"CVE-2023-25577"},"products":["starlite"],"published":"2023-02-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-03-10","vendors":["starlite-api"]},"summary":"An attacker can cause denial of service in Starlite applications by sending excessive multipart requests, consuming CPU and memory resources.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-25578/"}