CVE-2026-53539

python-multipart: Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python

CVE-2026-53539 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-53539, released June 22, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.5
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0046
40th percentile

Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.30, when parsing application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies, QuerystringParser located the field separator with a two step lookup: it first scanned the entire remaining buffer for &, and only when no & existed anywhere ahead did it fall back to scanning for ;. For a body that uses ; as the separator and contains no &, every field iteration performed a full failed & scan over the entire remaining buffer before locating the nearby ;. With N semicolon separated fields in a chunk of size B, this yields O(B^2) byte comparisons per chunk. An attacker can submit a small crafted body of the form a;a;a;... and cause the parser to spend seconds of CPU per request. A handful of concurrent requests can exhaust worker processes. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.30.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
python-multipart · Debian 14 0.0.32-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-53539 Jun 22, 2026
python-python-multipart · opensuse-leap 16.0 0.0.20-160000.5.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21066-1 Jun 26, 2026
python-python-multipart · sles 16.0 0.0.20-160000.5.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22372-1 Jun 26, 2026

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