GHSA-g84x-mcqj-x9qqMedium

AIOHTTP vulnerable to DoS through chunked messages

Published
January 5, 2026
Last Modified
January 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Summary

Handling of chunked messages can result in excessive blocking CPU usage when receiving a large number of chunks.

Impact

If an application makes use of the request.read() method in an endpoint, it may be possible for an attacker to cause the server to spend a moderate amount of blocking CPU time (e.g. 1 second) while processing the request. This could potentially lead to DoS as the server would be unable to handle other requests during that time.


Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/dc3170b56904bdf814228fae70a5501a42a6c712 Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/4ed97a4e46eaf61bd0f05063245f613469700229

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/aiohttp:<= 3.13.2

🔗 References (5)