CVE-2024-49769 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Waitress, a Python Web Server Gateway Interface server. This flaw allows a remote attacker to exhaust available sockets by prematurely closing connections, leading to a busy-loop and rendering the server unresponsive. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 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:N/I:N/A:H
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Waitress vulnerable to DoS leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
Oct 29, 2024waitress: Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
Oct 29, 2024Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
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