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CVE-2025-13836

Excessive read buffering DoS in http.client PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

When reading an HTTP response from a server, if no read amount is specified, the default behavior will be to use Content-Length. This allows a malicious server to cause the client to read large amounts of data into memory, potentially causing OOM or other DoS.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Python Software Foundation / CPythonaffected 0 before 3.10.20; affected 3.11.0 before 3.11.15; affected 3.12.0 before 3.12.13; affected 3.13.0 before 3.13.11; affected 3.14.0 before 3.14.1; affected 3.15.0a1 before 3.15.0a3

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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