# CVE-2026-48484: pyLoad: Lack of Input Size Validation Leads to Denial of Service (DoS) and Process Termination

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-4293, GHSA-VQ8P-M3WM-GV5F
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.5.0b3.dev101
- Published: 2026-10-09 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

- pyload: fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev101
- pyload-ng (PyPI): fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev101

## Description

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev101, the API `rpc` function in `api_blueprint.py` handles `multipart/form-data` uploads by reading the whole content of the uploaded file into memory with `file.read()`. This occurs before the data is sent to the underlying function. Since there is no size limit set at this point, a large file upload can exhaust the server's available memory which led to process termination. Version 0.5.0b3.dev101 contains a patch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pyload, pyload-ng, upgrade to a fixed version (0.5.0b3.dev101) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-vq8p-m3wm-gv5f
- https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/461cd66f30fa9e96453fb4d8c5c47467e452363c
- https://github.com/pyload/pyload/blob/8e447958b8a66c5899775e725a8b90bce6643004/src/pyload/webui/app/blueprints/api_blueprint.py#L73

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