Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting awx package, versions <24.6.1-r23


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-AWX-14894626
  • published8 Jan 2026
  • disclosed6 Jan 2026

Introduced: 6 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-69227  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard awx to version 24.6.1-r23 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream awx package and not the awx package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Versions 3.13.2 and below allow for an infinite loop to occur when assert statements are bypassed, resulting in a DoS attack when processing a POST body. If optimizations are enabled (-O or PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1), and the application includes a handler that uses the Request.post() method, then an attacker may be able to execute a DoS attack with a specially crafted message. This issue is fixed in version 3.13.3.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1