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Quart 0.23.0 has a leftover debug print in its request body handling, so every awaited request body is written to standard output. Anyone who can read the app's logs can see submitted form fields such as passwords and CSRF tokens.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-11-02 13:44 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Quart applications on version 0.23.0 that await request bodies, which includes form handling, JSON endpoints via request.get_json(), file uploads and WTForms validate_on_submit(). Exposure requires that stdout or logs are captured somewhere readable, which is the default in most container and systemd setups. Apps on 0.22.0 or 0.23.1 and later are not affected.
| Product | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| quart | pypi | = 0.23.0 | 0.23.1 |
pip show quart or pip freeze | grep -i quart; 0.23.0 is affected.bytearray(b' strings that contain form field names.0.23.1 (fixed version per the advisory; 0.23.0 is affected)Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
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.
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.).
pip install quart==0.23.0 (requires Python 3.13+)python @app.route("/login", methods=["POST"]) async def login(): form_data = await request.form ... staff_id/password fields.bytearray(b'csrf_token=...&staff_id=...&password=...').Confirmed via source diff against 0.22.0's request.py, where this line does not exist.
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).
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