CVE-2026-44432High· 7.5▾ Twilighturllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.0 to before 2.7.0, urllib3 could decompress the whole response instead of the requested portion (1) during the second HTTPResponse.read(amt=N) call when the response was decompressed…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 41.3 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via NVD
0.7%
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.7% → 0.9%
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.0 to before 2.7.0, urllib3 could decompress the whole response instead of the requested portion (1) during the second HTTPResponse.read(amt=N) call when the response was decompressed using the official Brotli library or (2) when HTTPResponse.drain_conn() was called after the response had been read and decompressed partially (compression algorithm did not matter here). These issues could cause urllib3 to fully decode a small amount of highly compressed data in a single operation. This could result in excessive resource consumption (high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed data) on the client side. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.0.
urllib3 >= 2.6.0, < 2.7.0Upgrade past the affected range:
urllib3 2.7.0Affected packages:
urllib3 >= 2.6.0, < 2.7.0Patched in:
urllib3 2.7.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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