Advisories for Pypi/Fastapi package

2024

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

FastAPI is a web framework for building APIs with Python 3.8+ based on standard Python type hints. When using form data, python-multipart uses a Regular Expression to parse the HTTP Content-Type header, including options. An attacker could send a custom-made Content-Type option that is very difficult for the RegEx to process, consuming CPU resources and stalling indefinitely (minutes or more) while holding the main event loop. This means that process …

2021

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in FastAPI

FastAPI versions lower than 0.65.2 that used cookies for authentication in path operations that received JSON payloads sent by browsers were vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. In versions lower than 0.65.2, FastAPI would try to read the request payload as JSON even if the content-type header sent was not set to application/json or a compatible JSON media type (e.g. application/geo+json). So, a request with a content type …