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01 Record

CVE-2023-46136

Werkzeug vulnerable to high resource usage when parsing multipart/form-data containing a large part with CR/LF character at the beginning

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score8.0 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

Werkzeug vulnerable to high resource usage when parsing multipart/form-data containing a large part with CR/LF character at the beginning

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.28% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 69.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2023-10-24 23:48Z3 YR AGO
Last updated
2026-05-20 22:17Z5 MO AGO
Reserved
2023-10-16
Assigning CNA
GitHub_M
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 8.0)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
  • CWE-407Inefficient Algorithmic ComplexityClass
  • CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
Data version
5.2
Document digest
612962981171d9bc74777d74f801c749fda004ec2e5adf19148ed3131d348f64

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
palletswerkzeug>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1, >= 2.0.0rc1, < 2.3.8—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Debian 12

  • python-werkzeug
    Fixed in 2.2.2-3+deb12u1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 13

  • python-werkzeug
    Fixed in 3.0.1-2

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 14

  • python-werkzeug
    Fixed in 3.0.1-2

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.