PYSEC-2026-142

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.readamt=N call when the response was decompressed using the official Brotli library or 2 when...

CVE-2026-44432

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.readamt=N call when the response was decompressed using the official Brotli library or 2 when...

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

Impact urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by reading the content in chunks, rather than loading the entire response body into memory at once. urllib3 can perform decompression based on the HTTP Content-Encoding header e.g., gzip, deflate, br, or...