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"value": "<p><code>Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART</code>, the multipart request-body parser used to handle file uploads and multipart forms, does not enforce its <code>:length</code> budget against all consumed resources, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service. The parser charges the <code>:length</code> limit only for part body bytes; part header bytes are never counted, and a part with an empty body costs zero.</p>\n<p>Because every part whose <code>Content-Disposition</code> carries a non-empty <code>filename</code> creates a fresh temporary file (via <code>Plug.Upload</code>) and retains a <code>Plug.Upload</code> struct for the duration of the request, an attacker can send a single request composed of many empty-body file parts. Such a request stays well under the configured <code>:length</code> limit (8,000,000 bytes by default) while creating one temporary file per part, leading to inode and disk exhaustion and unbounded memory growth. Any application using <code>Plug.Parsers</code> with the <code>:multipart</code> parser is affected, and no authentication is required, only reachability of a multipart endpoint over HTTP.</p>\n<p>This vulnerability is associated with program files <code>lib/plug/parsers/multipart.ex</code> and program routines <code>Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart/2</code>, <code>Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart_headers/5</code>, <code>Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart_body/4</code>, and <code>Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart_file/4</code>.</p>\n<p>This issue affects plug: from 1.4.0-rc.0 before 1.16.6, from 1.17.0 before 1.17.4, from 1.18.0 before 1.18.5, from 1.19.1 before 1.19.5, and from 1.20.0 before 1.20.3.</p>"
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