CVE-2026-59939 (GCVE-0-2026-59939)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-08 19:34 – Updated: 2026-07-10 14:55
VLAI
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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
httplib2 httplib2 Affected: < 0.32.0
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