CVE-2026-97688 urllib3: Chunked Deflate streaming can enter an infinite loop

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.2 until 2.8.0, HTTPResponse.stream and HTTPResponse.readchunked can enter an infinite loop because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching end-of-stream and repeatedly decodes them without progress. The...

CVE-2026-97688 urllib3: Chunked Deflate streaming can enter an infinite loop

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.2 until 2.8.0, HTTPResponse.stream and HTTPResponse.readchunked can enter an infinite loop because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching end-of-stream and repeatedly decodes them without progress. The...

CVE-2026-97688 urllib3: Chunked Deflate streaming can enter an infinite loop

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.2 until 2.8.0, HTTPResponse.stream and HTTPResponse.readchunked can enter an infinite loop because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching end-of-stream and repeatedly decodes them without progress. The...

CVE-2026-97688

The Python HTTP client library urllib3 versions 2.6.2 through 2.8.0 are vulnerable to an infinite loop during chunked Deflate streaming. The issue exists because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching the end-of-stream, repeatedly decoding them without progr...

CVE-2026-97688

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.2 until 2.8.0, HTTPResponse.stream and HTTPResponse.readchunked can enter an infinite loop because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching end-of-stream and repeatedly decodes them without progress. The...

CVE-2026-97688: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.2 until 2.8.0, HTTPResponse.stream and HTTPResponse.readchunked can enter an infinite loop because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching end-of-stream and repeatedly decodes them without progress. The...

CVE-2026-97689: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.10.3 until 2.8.0, the HTTPResponse.readchunked and HTTPResponse.stream methods can allocate unbounded memory because the streaming chunk parser buffers the chunk-size field until newline or EOF without a length bound. The trigger is that a...