Bug 2491466 (CVE-2026-53538) - CVE-2026-53538 python-multipart: Python-Multipart: Information disclosure due to parser differential in form data handling
Summary: CVE-2026-53538 python-multipart: Python-Multipart: Information disclosure due...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53538
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-22 18:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-13 11:54 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-22 18:03:03 UTC
Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.30, QuerystringParser treated ; as a field separator in application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies, in addition to &. The WHATWG URL standard, modern browsers, and Python's urllib.parse (since the CVE-2021-23336 fix) treat only & as a separator. This creates a parser differential: the same bytes are tokenized into different fields than a WHATWG compliant intermediary would produce, allowing an attacker to smuggle extra form fields past an upstream body inspecting component. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.30.


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