OpenStack Swift: s3api middleware enters an infinite loop when processing a truncated aws-chunked PUT request body

In OpenStack Swift before 2.36.2 and 2.37.2, s3api middleware enters an infinite loop when processing a truncated aws-chunked PUT request body. The StreamingInput class repeatedly appends an empty buffer and re-reads, causing the proxy-server worker handling the request to become permanently...

Infinite loop

Overview swift is an OpenStack Object Storage Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop via the StreamingInput process. An attacker can cause proxy-server workers to become permanently unresponsive and exhaust system resources by sending specially crafted, truncated...

CVE-2026-49017

In OpenStack Swift before 2.36.2 and 2.37.2, s3api middleware enters an infinite loop when processing a truncated aws-chunked PUT request body. The StreamingInput class repeatedly appends an empty buffer and re-reads, causing the proxy-server worker handling the request to become permanently...