Security Bulletin:urllib3 Unbounded Decompression Chain Enables Denial of Service

Summary 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 server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps leading to high CPU usage and massiv...

urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion

A flaw was found in urllib3 Python library that could lead to a Denial of Service condition. A remote, malicious server can exploit this flaw by responding to a client request with an HTTP message that uses an excessive number of chained compression algorithms. This unlimited decompression chain...

urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion

A flaw was found in urllib3 Python library that could lead to a Denial of Service condition. A remote, malicious server can exploit this flaw by responding to a client request with an HTTP message that uses an excessive number of chained compression algorithms. This unlimited decompression chain...

urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion

A flaw was found in urllib3 Python library that could lead to a Denial of Service condition. A remote, malicious server can exploit this flaw by responding to a client request with an HTTP message that uses an excessive number of chained compression algorithms. This unlimited decompression chain...

urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion

A flaw was found in urllib3 Python library that could lead to a Denial of Service condition. A remote, malicious server can exploit this flaw by responding to a client request with an HTTP message that uses an excessive number of chained compression algorithms. This unlimited decompression chain...

urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion

A flaw was found in urllib3 Python library that could lead to a Denial of Service condition. A remote, malicious server can exploit this flaw by responding to a client request with an HTTP message that uses an excessive number of chained compression algorithms. This unlimited decompression chain...

urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion

A flaw was found in urllib3 Python library that could lead to a Denial of Service condition. A remote, malicious server can exploit this flaw by responding to a client request with an HTTP message that uses an excessive number of chained compression algorithms. This unlimited decompression chain...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

urllib3 is vulnerable to a Denial-Of-Service DoS. The vulnerability is due to an unbounded decompression chain, where nested compression layers are not limited, allowing a malicious server to send specially crafted responses that trigger excessive CPU usage and large memory allocation during...

SUSE CVE-2025-66418

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 server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps leading to high CPU usage and massive memory...

ALPINE-CVE-2023-23916

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this...

OESA-2022-1744 curl security update

Security Fixes: A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because it mishandles message verification failures when curl does FTP transfers secured by krb5. This flaw makes it possible for a Man-in-the-middle attack to go unnoticed and allows data injection into the client.CVE-2022-3220...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-32206

curl 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually...