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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-46136

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 24, 2023
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2026

Description

Werkzeug is a comprehensive WSGI web application library. In versions on the 3.x branch prior to 3.0.1 and on the 2.x branch prior to 2.3.8, if an upload of a file that starts with CR or LF and then is followed by megabytes of data without these characters: all of these bytes are appended chunk by chunk into internal bytearray and lookup for boundary is performed on growing buffer. This allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending crafted multipart data to an endpoint that will parse it. The amount of CPU time required can block worker processes from handling legitimate requests. This vulnerability has been patched in version 3.0.1 and 2.3.8.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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