Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.
CVE-2024-49769
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.2%, top 21% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 69.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 29, 2024
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (5)
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/Pylons/waitress/commit/1ae4e894c9f76543bee06584001583fc6fa8c95c
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/418
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/435
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/Pylons/waitress/security/advisories/GHSA-3f84-rpwh-47g6
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00012.html
Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | python3-waitress (2.1.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ noble | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | python-waitress-0:2.0.0-4.el8ost | 2025-02-10 | redhat |
| redhat | python-waitress-0:2.0.0-4.el9ost | 2025-02-10 | redhat |
| redhat | python-waitress-0:3.0.1-1.el9 | 2024-12-12 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| waitress | 0.1 ... 3.0.0 (50 versions) | 3.0.1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2024-497692025-03-14
Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion
- Red HatRHSA-2024:10145IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2024:10145 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2024:10535IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2024:10535 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2024:10815IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2024:10815 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2024:9613IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2024:9613 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2024:9618IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2024:9618 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2024:9623IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2024:9623 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:0201IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2025:0201 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:1191IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2025:1191 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:1192IMPORTANT2024-10-29
RHSA-2025:1192 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-7115-1MEDIUM
Waitress vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-05-23 19:24 UTCVendor advisory
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