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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 : urllib3 vulnerabilities (USN-7927-1)

🗓️ 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Ubuntu urllib3 flaws CVE-2025-66418 and CVE-2025-66471 may cause denial of service; update brotli.

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# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

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    Illia Volochii discovered that urllib3 did not limit the steps in a decompression chain. An attacker could
    possibly use this issue to cause urllib3 to use excessive resources, causing a denial of service.
    (CVE-2025-66418)

    Rui Xi discovered that urllib3 incorrectly handled highly compressed data. An attacker could possibly use
    this issue to cause urllib3 to use excessive resources, causing a denial of service. This issue only
    affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-66471)

    For the brotli encoding, the fix for CVE-2025-66471 requires an additional security update in the brotli
    package.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7927-1");
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include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('20.04' >< os_release || '22.04' >< os_release || '24.04' >< os_release || '25.04' >< os_release || '25.10' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 / 24.04 / 25.04 / 25.10', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);
var ubuntu_pro_detected = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/Pro/Services/esm-apps');
ubuntu_pro_detected = !empty_or_null(ubuntu_pro_detected);

var pro_caveat_needed = FALSE;

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-urllib3', 'pkgver': '1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm2', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE, 'cves': ['CVE-2025-66418', 'CVE-2025-66471']},
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    {'osver': '24.04', 'pkgname': 'python3-urllib3', 'pkgver': '2.0.7-1ubuntu0.3', 'ubuntu_pro': FALSE, 'cves': ['CVE-2025-66418', 'CVE-2025-66471']},
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  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
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  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['ubuntu_pro'])) pro_required = package_array['ubuntu_pro'];
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        flag++;
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}

if (flag)
{
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    extra += 'require an Ubuntu Pro subscription.\n\n';
  }
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    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
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  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
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  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'python3-urllib3');
}

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