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CVE-2026-97689

7.5, high

urllib3 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Vulnerability

NVD (opens in a new tab) CVE.org (opens in a new tab)
CVSS
7.5, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
0.3% higher than 25.2% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
No public evidence
Published
29 Sept 202618 days ago

Description

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.10.3 until 2.8.0, the HTTPResponse.read_chunked and HTTPResponse.stream methods can allocate unbounded memory because the streaming chunk parser buffers the chunk-size field until newline or EOF without a length bound. The trigger is that a malicious server returns Transfer-Encoding: chunked followed by a very long run of bytes without a newline. The attack mechanism is that a malicious HTTP server sends a very long unterminated chunk-size line. The impact is that unbounded memory allocation can exhaust the client process. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.0.

Details

Vendor
Urllib3
Product
urllib3
Weakness
CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
13 Oct 2026
Assigner
security-advisories@github.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References 3

Patches and fixes 1

Advisories 1

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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  • CVE-2026-97687 urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python EPSS 0.2% 8.1, high

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.