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GHSA-v853-p72q-4cfw

GHSA-v853-p72q-4cfw · Quart leaks raw request body (incl. plaintext passwords) to stdout via stray debug print in Body.__await__

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### Summary Quart 0.23.0 contains a stray debug statement (`print(data)`) inside `Body.__await__` in `quart/wrappers/request.py`. Any request whose body is awaited — `await request.form`, `await request.get_data()`, WTForms `validate_on_submit()`, etc. — has its raw, unparsed body printed to stdout, including plaintext form fields such as passwords and CSRF tokens. Confirmed present in 0.23.0, confirmed absent in 0.22.0. ### Details In `src/quart/wrappers/request.py`, `Body.__await__` accumulates the request body into a bytearray: ​```python data = bytearray() while not self._queue.empty(): data.extend(self._queue.get_nowait()) print(data) # <-- not present in 0.22.0 if ( self._max_content_length is not None and len(data) > self._max_content_length ): raise RequestEntityTooLarge() ​``` This fires for every request that awaits its body — the overwhelming majority of POST/PUT routes in a typical Quart app (form submissions, JSON APIs via `request.get_json()`, file uploads, etc.). ### PoC 1. `pip install quart==0.23.0` (requires Python 3.13+) 2. Minimal route: ​```python @app.route("/login", methods=["POST"]) async def login(): form_data = await request.form ... ​``` 3. Submit a POST with form data, e.g. a login form with `staff_id`/`password` fields. 4. Observe stdout: the full raw body is printed as `bytearray(b'csrf_token=...&staff_id=...&password=...')`. Confirmed via source diff against 0.22.0's `request.py`, where this line does not exist. ### Impact Any app that captures stdout in logs (terminal redirect, systemd/journald, Docker logs, cloud log aggregation, etc.) will have every submitted form body — including login credentials — written to logs in plaintext. This affects any Quart 0.23.0 app handling authentication or any sensitive form data, and is trivially triggerable by any user simply submitting a form (no attacker action required beyond normal use).

CVSS 7.5 · High · Fix available

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Stack: python

Affected products and versions

  • quart PyPI

    Versions
    • 0.23.0
    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 0.23.0, < 0.23.1

    Update to 0.23.1

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