# CVE-2026-38361: Multiple unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) issues in fohrloop dash-uploader v0.1.0 through v0.7.0a2.

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-37
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 0.7.0a1
- Published: 2026-05-08 · Updated: 2026-06-10

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- dash-uploader (PyPI): from 0.1.0, fixed in 0.7.0a1

## Description

Multiple unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) issues in fohrloop dash-uploader v0.1.0 through v0.7.0a2. The chunked-upload handler (dash_uploader/httprequesthandler.py, dash_uploader/upload.py) trusts unsanitized, attacker-controlled upload parameters (e.g. flowTotalChunks) and does not enforce the documented max_file_size limit, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an out-of-memory (OOM) process crash (unbounded range(1, flowTotalChunks + 1) allocation), truncation of the target file to zero bytes (flowTotalChunks=0, where the all([]) == True quirk runs the file-assembly branch on zero chunks), permanent disk exhaustion (never-cleaned-up temporary directories per flowIdentifier), and a complete bypass of the documented max_file_size limit.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, dash-uploader, upgrade to a fixed version (0.7.0a1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/fohrloop/dash-uploader
- https://pypi.org/project/dash-uploader/
- https://github.com/fohrloop/dash-uploader/blob/stable/dash_uploader/httprequesthandler.py
- https://github.com/fohrloop/dash-uploader/issues/153
- https://pypistats.org/packages/dash-uploader
- https://libraries.io/pypi/dash-uploader
- https://pepy.tech/project/dash-uploader
- https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#all
- https://github.com/a1ohadance/CVE-2026-38361
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/7636
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xp7f-v245-w3w8
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-38361.yaml

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