Starlette has possible denial-of-service vector when parsing large files in multipart forms

链接： https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2c2j-9gv5-cj73

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CVSS 评分： 5.3

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Summary

When parsing a multi-part form with large files (greater than the default max spool size) starlette will block the main thread to roll the file over to disk. This blocks the event thread which means we can’t accept new connections.

Details

Please see this discussion for details: https://github.com/encode/starlette/discussions/2927#discussioncomment-13721403. In summary the following UploadFile code (copied from here) has a minor bug. Instead of just checking for self._in_memory we should also check if the additional bytes will cause a rollover.

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@property
def _in_memory(self) -> bool:
    # check for SpooledTemporaryFile._rolled
    rolled_to_disk = getattr(self.file, "_rolled", True)
    return not rolled_to_disk

async def write(self, data: bytes) -> None:
    if self.size is not None:
        self.size += len(data)

    if self._in_memory:
        self.file.write(data)
    else:
        await run_in_threadpool(self.file.write, data)

I have already created a PR which fixes the problem: https://github.com/encode/starlette/pull/2962

PoC

See the discussion here for steps on how to reproduce.

Impact

To be honest, very low and not many users will be impacted. Parsing large forms is already CPU intensive so the additional IO block doesn’t slow down starlette that much on systems with modern HDDs/SSDs. If someone is running on tape they might see a greater impact.

安全公告
#Github Advisory
Starlette has possible denial-of-service vector when parsing large files in multipart forms
http://example.com/2025/07/21/github_136941483/
作者
lianccc
发布于
2025年7月21日
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