urllib3: urllib3: Denial of Service due to excessive HTTP response decompression

A flaw was found in urllib3, an HTTP client library for Python. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause excessive resource consumption, such as high CPU usage and massive memory allocation, on the client side. This occurs when urllib3 attempts to decompress an entire HTTP response,...

CVE-2026-59873 node-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited input

node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.19, node-tar does not enforce hard upper bounds on total decompressed data, entry counts, or decompression ratio in extraction and parsing paths such as src/extract.ts, allowing a small crafted gzip bomb to exhaust disk spac...

OESA-2026-1251 python-urllib3 security update

HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly, and more. Security Fixes: urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.24 and prior to 2.6.0, the number of links in the decompression chain was unbounded allowing a malicious...

CVE-2025-66471

CVE-2025-66471 affects urllib3’s streaming API handling of compressed HTTP responses in Python. The issue arises when streaming a highly compressed payload, where decompression could process data in a way that uses excessive CPU and memory, potentially from the decompression buffer behavior noted...