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SCA: security update for starlite (GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6q)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417207

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Starlite is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to version 1.5.2, the request
 body parsing in `starlite` allows a potentially unauthenticated attacker to consume a large amount of CPU
 time and RAM. The multipart body parser processes an unlimited number of file parts and an unlimited
 number of field parts. This is a remote, potentially unauthenticated Denial of Service vulnerability. This
 vulnerability affects applications with a request handler that accepts a
 `Body(media_type=RequestEncodingType.MULTI_PART)`. The large amount of CPU time required for processing
 requests can block all available worker processes and significantly delay or slow down the processing of
 legitimate user requests. The large amount of RAM accumulated while processing requests can lead to Out-
 Of-Memory kills. Complete DoS is achievable by sending many concurrent multipart requests in a loop.
 Version 1.51.2 contains a patch for this issue. (CVE-2023-25578)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p24m-863f-fm6q

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417207

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25578

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25578