Quart leaks raw request body (incl. plaintext passwords) to stdout via stray debug print in Body.__await__
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
pip install quart==0.23.0(requires Python 3.13+)- Minimal route:
python @app.route("/login", methods=["POST"]) async def login(): form_data = await request.form ... - Submit a POST with form data, e.g. a login form with
staff_id/passwordfields. - 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).
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python (PyPI) | quart | >= 0.23.0, < 0.23.1 | 0.23.1 |
References
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-532- Platform
- Python (PyPI)
- Package
quart- Disclosed
- 05.10.2026
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 15:18
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-v853-p72q-4cfw - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: quart
All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.
- Total entries
- 2
- First → latest
- 10.2024 10.2026
- Without a fix
- 0
- Exploited in attacks
- 0
Severity breakdown
- High 1
- Medium 1
Disclosures per year
- 2024: 1
- 2025: 0
- 2026: 1
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