Astra Linux – Vulnerability in python-urllib3

urllib3 is a HTTP client library for Python. The streaming API of urllib3 is designed for efficiently handling large HTTP responses by reading the content in chunks, rather than loading the entire response body into memory at once. urllib3 can perform decoding or decompression based on the HTTP...

urllib3: urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API)

A flaw was found in urllib3. When processing HTTP redirect responses during data streaming, the library automatically reads and decompresses the full response body without enforcing configured size limits. A malicious server can exploit this by serving an excessively compressed response, bypassin...