CVE-2025-68480 (GCVE-0-2025-68480)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-22 21:20 – Updated: 2025-12-22 21:35
VLAI
Title
Marshmallow has DoS in Schema.load(many)
Summary
Marshmallow is a lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes. In versions from 3.0.0rc1 to before 3.26.2 and from 4.0.0 to before 4.1.2, Schema.load(data, many=True) is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. A moderately sized request can consume a disproportionate amount of CPU time. This issue has been patched in version 3.26.2 and 4.1.2.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-405 - Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
marshmallow-code marshmallow Affected: >= 3.0.0rc1, < 3.26.2
Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.2
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