New submission from Matthew Belisle <matthew.beli...@workiva.com>:
Copied from email to secur...@python.org: I have been doing memory profiling on a few python web frameworks and I noticed this issue in the cgi.FieldStorage class. $ python example.py Memory used: 523935744 bytes The problem is there is no easy way to limit the number of MiniFieldStorage objects created by FieldStorage, so it goes unchecked in many frameworks like pyramid, pylons, webapp2, and flask. The end result is that on these frameworks, a 9MB request body (gzipped down to 9KB) can chew up ~500MB of memory on the server which is enough to effectively DOS it. The obvious way to prevent this currently is to check the content-length header and fail if it exceeds some value. But that solution has a major shortcoming because many frameworks want to allow large payloads, sometimes up to 10MB, as long as they contain a reasonable number of fields. After talking with the secur...@python.org team and pylons dev team about it, we think the best solution is to add a max_num_fields param to the FieldStorage class, defaulting to None, which throws an error if max_num_fields is exceeded. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 326831 nosy: Matthew Belisle priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: CGI DOS vulnerability via long post list type: security versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34866> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
