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GHSA-v853-p72q-4cfw

Quart leaks raw request body (incl. plaintext passwords) to stdout via stray debug print in Body.__await__

quartpipLibraries & packages
CVSS
7.5High
ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)No scoreNo FIRST EPSS score in this snapshot yet
Fixed in0.23.1Fixed versionGitHub
Published5 Oct 2026Updated 5 Oct 2026GitHub

What fixes it

  • 0.23.1quart, pipGitHub
  • 0.23.1quart, PyPIOSVpip install "quart>=0.23.1"

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Description

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 ... ​``

  1. Submit a POST with form data, e.g. a login form with staff_id/password fields.
  2. 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).

Text from GitHub Advisory Database

Affected versions 3

  • quart, pip= 0.23.0GitHub
  • quart, PyPIfrom 0.23.0, fixed in 0.23.1OSV
  • quart, PyPI0.23.0OSV

References 4