CVE-2024-49768 is a race condition vulnerability affecting the Waitress WSGI server for Python. When request lookahead is enabled, a remote client can send a precisely sized request followed by a pipelined secondary request, allowing the secondary request to be processed even if the first request fails and the connection should be closed. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.8 (Medium), indicating a network attack vector with high attack complexity and potential for low impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0.0, < 3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:agendaless:waitress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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