EEF-CVE-2026-54892 Plug: quadratic-time decoding of nested query/body parameters enables denial of service

Summary Inefficient algorithmic complexity in Plug's nested-parameter decoder allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service. Plug.Conn.Query.decode/4 and Plug.Conn.Query.decode\each/2 parse query strings and application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies. When a key...

CVE-2026-53538

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...

CVE-2026-54283 Starlette: request.form() limits silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded enable DoS

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. From 0.4.1 until 1.3.1, request.form accepts maxfields and maxpartsize to bound resource consumption while parsing form data. These limits are enforced for multipart/form-data, but silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded. An...

GHSA-5RVQ-CXJ2-64VF python-multipart: Quadratic-time querystring parsing with semicolon separators causes CPU denial of service

Summary 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...