GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
Waitress vulnerable to DoS leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
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.
### Patches
Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.
### Workarounds
No work-around.
### References
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49769
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c
- https://github.com/Pylons/waitress
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/waitress/PYSEC-2024-211.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00012.html