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CVE-2026-53539: python-multipart: Quadratic-time querystring parsing with semicolon separators causes CPU denial of service

June 15, 2026

When parsing application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies, QuerystringParser located the field separator with a two step lookup: it first scanned the entire remaining buffer for &, and only when no & existed anywhere ahead did it fall back to scanning for ;. For a body that uses ; as the separator and contains no &, every field iteration performed a full failed & scan over the entire remaining buffer before locating the nearby ;. With N semicolon separated fields in a chunk of size B, this yields O(B^2) byte comparisons per chunk.

An attacker can submit a small crafted body of the form a;a;a;... and cause the parser to spend seconds of CPU per request. A handful of concurrent requests can exhaust worker processes.

References

  • github.com/Kludex/python-multipart/security/advisories/GHSA-5rvq-cxj2-64vf
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-5rvq-cxj2-64vf
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53539

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.0.30

Fixed versions

  • 0.0.30

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.0.30 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Source file

pypi/python-multipart/CVE-2026-53539.yml

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