CVE-2026-59939 (GCVE-0-2026-59939)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-08 19:34 – Updated: 2026-08-20 21:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httplib2: Decompression Bomb Denial of Service via Unbounded gzip/deflate Response Handling
Summary
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 compressed payload that expands to an arbitrarily large size in memory and causes MemoryError or OOM-kill in the client process. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-10 14:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/87581… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/releases/tag… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026… |
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