GHSA-g7jq-j257-rww2High

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

Published
May 27, 2026
Last Modified
July 1, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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 unresponsive with increasing CPU and memory consumption. An authenticated attacker can systematically exhaust all proxy-server workers, resulting in denial of service. The defect was introduced in Swift 2.36.0.

🎯 Affected products2

  • pip/swift:>= 2.36.0, <= 2.36.1
  • pip/swift:>= 2.37.0, <= 2.37.1

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