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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-44432

CVE-2026-44432

High
Open
TLP:CLEAR

urllib3: Decompression-bomb safeguards bypassed in parts of the streaming API

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Critical Infrastructure

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Description

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.

Details

CVSS Score
8.9
EPSS Score
0.68%

49.2th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
Confidence
90%
Published
May 13, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 12, 2026
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