# CVE-2026-61652: Zapros: Streaming decoders ignored the requested chunk size, allowing a single compressed response chunk to allocate unbounded memory (decompression bomb)

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-4182, GHSA-6CP7-3M3C-5X5C
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.14.0
- Published: 2026-09-21 · Updated: 2026-09-22

## Affected

- kap-sh zapros: fixed in 0.14.0
- zapros (PyPI): fixed in 0.14.0

## Description

Zapros, a Python HTTP client, prior to version 0.14.0 is vulnerable to denial of service via memory exhaustion. The issue affects all callers who streamed compressed responses relying on the chunk size — explicit (`iter_bytes(chunk_size=...)`) or the default — to bound memory. The decoder ignored that bound, so a chunk could be far larger than requested and a single compressed response could overflow memory. Version 0.14.0 contains a patch. Some workarounds are available. Read the still-compressed body with `Response.iter_raw()` / `Response.async_iter_raw()`, which bypass the built-in decoders, and decompress it yourself with an explicit output-size bound (e.g. `zlib`'s `max_length`), aborting once a configured limit is exceeded. Where feasible, send `Accept-Encoding: identity` to disable response compression so bodies are not decompressed client-side. Avoid decoding response bodies from untrusted servers.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kap-sh zapros, zapros, upgrade to a fixed version (0.14.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/kap-sh/zapros/security/advisories/GHSA-6cp7-3m3c-5x5c

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