GHSA-6mq8-rvhq-8wgg

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AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb

view advisory published 2026-01-05Licence: CC-BY-4.0

### Summary A zip bomb can be used to execute a DoS against the aiohttp server. ### Impact An attacker may be able to send a compressed request that when decompressed by aiohttp could exhaust the host's memory. ------ Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/2b920c39002cee0ec5b402581779bbaaf7c9138a

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2025-69223US	—	0.58% (48th)	—	2026-01-05
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Versions 3.13.2 and below allow a zip bomb to be used to execute a DoS against the AIOHTTP server. A…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttpPACKAGE
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/2b920c39002cee0ec5b402581779bbaaf7c9138aWEB
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-6mq8-rvhq-8wggWEB
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69223ADVISORY

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