# CVE-2026-59939: httplib2: Decompression Bomb Denial of Service via Unbounded gzip/deflate Response Handling

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3444, GHSA-J5G9-F88F-GFJ3
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.32.0
- Published: 2026-07-08 · Updated: 2026-08-20

## Affected

- httplib2: fixed in 0.32.0
- httplib2 (PyPI): fixed in 0.32.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on httplib2, upgrade to a fixed version (0.32.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-j5g9-f88f-gfj3
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/87581ad6cf752fe3da2090c59058261d2d00a427
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/releases/tag/v0.32.0

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