# CVE-2026-44432: urllib3: Decompression-bomb safeguards bypassed in parts of the streaming API

- Also known as: GHSA-MF9V-MFXR-J63J, PYSEC-2026-142
- Severity: CVSS 8.9 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.7.0
- Published: 2026-05-13 · Updated: 2026-09-10

## Affected

- urllib3: from 2.6.0, fixed in 2.7.0
- urllib3 (PyPI): from 2.6.0, fixed in 2.7.0

## Description

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 2.6.0 to before 2.7.0, urllib3 could decompress the whole response instead of the requested portion (1) during the second HTTPResponse.read(amt=N) call when the response was decompressed using the official Brotli library or (2) when HTTPResponse.drain_conn() was called after the response had been read and decompressed partially (compression algorithm did not matter here). These issues could cause urllib3 to fully decode a small amount of highly compressed data in a single operation. This could result in excessive resource consumption (high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed data) on the client side. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.0.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-mf9v-mfxr-j63j

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