Zapros, a Python HTTP client, prior to version 0.14.0 is vulnerable to denial of service via memory exhaustion. The issue affects all callers who streamed compressed responses relying on the chunk size — explicit (`iter_bytes(chunk_size=...)`) or the default — to bound memory. The decoder ignored that bound, so a chunk could be far larger than requested and a single compressed response could overflow memory. Version 0.14.0 contains a patch. Some workarounds are available. Read the still-compressed body with `Response.iter_raw()` / `Response.async_iter_raw()`, which bypass the built-in decoders, and decompress it yourself with an explicit output-size bound (e.g. `zlib`'s `max_length`), aborting once a configured limit is exceeded. Where feasible, send `Accept-Encoding: identity` to disable response compression so bodies are not decompressed client-side. Avoid decoding response bodies from untrusted servers.
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History
21 Sep 2026, 22:16
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Information
Published : 2026-09-21 22:16
Updated : 2026-09-24 21:25
NVD link : CVE-2026-61652
Mitre link : CVE-2026-61652
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-61652
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Products Affected
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CWE
CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
