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CVE-2026-59939

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-07-08 Modified: 2026-07-13

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.

Affected Platforms

Httplib2 Project Httplib2

Weakness Type

CWE-409

References