Denial Of Service (DoS)

httplib2 is vulnerable to Denial Of Service DoS. The vulnerability is due to unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with gzip or deflate, which allows a malicious server to return a compression bomb that exhausts client memory and causes a crash or out-of-memory condition...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : httplib2 vulnerability (USN-8537-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8537-1 advisory. It was discovered that httplib2 performed unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies when the server used gzip or deflate...

USN-8537-1: httplib2 vulnerability

It was discovered that httplib2 performed unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies when the server used gzip or deflate Content-Encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause httplib2 to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service...

USN-8537-1 python-httplib2 vulnerability

It was discovered that httplib2 performed unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies when the server used gzip or deflate Content-Encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause httplib2 to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service...

PT-2026-60058

It was discovered that httplib2 performed unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies when the server used gzip or deflate Content-Encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause httplib2 to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service...

CVE-2026-59939

httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 0.32.0, httplib2 performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate in decompressContent in httplib2/init.py, allowing a malicious or compromised HTTP server to return a small...

EEF-CVE-2026-49755 Decompression bomb DoS in Req via auto-decoded archive and compressed response bodies

Summary Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data Data Amplification vulnerability in wojtekmach Req allows attacker-controlled HTTP servers to exhaust memory in a Req client via decompression-bomb response bodies. Req's default response pipeline includes Req.Steps.decode\body/1 and...

PT-2026-47332

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions wojtekmach Req versions 0.1.0 through 0.6.0 Description Improper handling of highly compressed data allows attacker-controlled HTTP servers to exhaust memory in a client via decompression-bomb response bodies. The default response pipeline...

SUSE CVE-2026-28435

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.35.0, cpp-httplib httplib.h does not enforce Server::setpayloadmaxlength on the decompressed request body when using HandlerWithContentReader streaming ContentReader with Content-Encoding: gzip or other...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28435

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.35.0, cpp-httplib httplib.h does not enforce Server::setpayloadmaxlength on the decompressed request body when using HandlerWithContentReader streaming ContentReader with Content-Encoding: gzip or other...

CVE-2026-28435

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.35.0, cpp-httplib httplib.h does not enforce Server::setpayloadmaxlength on the decompressed request body when using HandlerWithContentReader streaming ContentReader with Content-Encoding: gzip or other...

CVE-2026-28435

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.35.0, cpp-httplib httplib.h does not enforce Server::setpayloadmaxlength on the decompressed request body when using HandlerWithContentReader streaming ContentReader with Content-Encoding: gzip or other...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-28435

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.35.0, cpp-httplib httplib.h does not enforce Server::setpayloadmaxlength on the decompressed request body when using HandlerWithContentReader streaming ContentReader with Content-Encoding: gzip or other...

EUVD-2026-9496

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.35.0, cpp-httplib httplib.h does not enforce Server::setpayloadmaxlength on the decompressed request body when using HandlerWithContentReader streaming ContentReader with Content-Encoding: gzip or other...

urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data

A decompression handling flaw has been discovered in urllib3. When streaming a compressed response, urllib3 can perform decoding or decompression based on the HTTP Content-Encoding header e.g., gzip, deflate, br, or zstd. The library must read compressed data from the network and decompress it...

urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data

A decompression handling flaw has been discovered in urllib3. When streaming a compressed response, urllib3 can perform decoding or decompression based on the HTTP Content-Encoding header e.g., gzip, deflate, br, or zstd. The library must read compressed data from the network and decompress it...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: python-urllib3-2.6.1-1.fc43

urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries: =E2=80=A2 Thread safety. =E2=80=A2 Connection pooling. =E2=80=A2 Client-side SSL/TLS verification. =E2=80=A2 File uploads with multipart encoding...

EUVD-2002-2373

Malware in sbrugna...

CVE-2002-2395

InterScan VirusWall 3.52 for Windows allows remote attackers to bypass virus protection and possibly execute arbitrary code via HTTP 1.1 gzip content encoding...

CVE-2021-45468

Imperva Web Application Firewall WAF before 2021-12-23 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use "Content-Encoding: gzip" to evade WAF security controls and send malicious HTTP POST requests to web servers behind the WAF...