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    <title>GHSA-mf9v-mfxr-j63j — urllib3: Decompression-bomb safeguards bypassed in parts of the streaming API</title>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>Affected:</strong> PyPI: urllib3</p>
<p>### Impact</p>
<p>urllib3's [streaming API](https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/2.7.0/advanced-usage.html#streaming-and-i-o) is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by reading the content in chunks, rather than loading the entire response body into memory at once.</p>
<p>urllib3 can perform decompression based on the HTTP `Content-Encoding` header (e.g., `gzip`, `deflate`, `br`, or `zstd`). When using the streaming API since version 2.6.0, the library decompresses only the necessary bytes, enabling partial content consumption.</p>
<p>However, urllib3 before version 2.7.0 could still decompress the whole response instead of the requested portion in two cases:
1. During the second `HTTPResponse.read(amt=N)` call when the response was decompressed using the official [Brotli](https://pypi.org/project/brotli/) library.
2. When `HTTPResponse.drain_conn()` was called after the response had been read and decompressed partially (compression algorithm did not matter here).</p>
<p>These issues could cause urllib3 to fully decode a small amount of highly compressed data in a single operation. This could result in excessive resource consumption (high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed data; CWE-409) on the client side.</p>
<p>### Affected usages</p>
<p>Applications and libraries using urllib3 versions earlier than 2.7.0 may be affected when streaming compressed responses from untrusted sources in either of these cases, unless decompression is explicitly disabled:</p>
<p>1. A respon…</p></div>
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