Source: python-urllib3 Version: 2.5.0-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for python-urllib3. CVE-2025-66418[0]: | urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting | in version 1.24 and prior to 2.6.0, the number of links in the | decompression chain was unbounded allowing a malicious server to | insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps leading to | high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed | data. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.0. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-66418 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-66418 [1] https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-gm62-xv2j-4w53 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
