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CVE-2024-49769

Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.

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Vulnerability Details
Score
7.5
Score Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Versions
waitress < 1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c; waitress < 3.0.1
Severity
High
Ecosystem
Python
Publish Date
October 29, 2024
Modified Date
January 19, 2025