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Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:45:00 +0000
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| Description | urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.2 until 2.8.0, HTTPResponse.stream and HTTPResponse.read_chunked can enter an infinite loop because the Deflate decoder retains trailing bytes as unconsumed input after reaching end-of-stream and repeatedly decodes them without progress. The issue occurs when an untrusted server sends a chunked Deflate response whose decoded body exceeds a positive finite chunk size and whose encoded body has trailing bytes, specifically a response with Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Encoding: deflate, content decoding enabled, and the positive finite amt=N streaming chunk size. The attack mechanism is that a malicious server returns a compressed chunked response with trailing bytes after the Deflate stream. The impact is excessive CPU usage and a request that does not complete, and network read timeouts do not interrupt the loop because no further socket read occurs. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.0. | |
| Title | urllib3: Chunked Deflate streaming can enter an infinite loop | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-835 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-29T15:42:34.502Z
Reserved: 2026-09-24T21:43:37.208Z
Link: CVE-2026-97688
Updated: 2026-09-29T15:42:31.467Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-29T16:17:18.680
Modified: 2026-09-29T16:17:18.680
Link: CVE-2026-97688
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Updated: 2026-09-29T17:30:17Z
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CWE-835
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')