CVE-2025-66418 (GCVE-0-2025-66418)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-05 16:02 – Updated: 2025-12-05 18:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
urllib3 allows an unbounded number of links in the decompression chain
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 massive memory allocation for the decompressed data. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.0.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-05 16:15 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
2 references
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| https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/24d7b67… | x_refsource_MISC |
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