Use After Free Affecting aiohttp package, versions [,3.14.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-AIOHTTP-18517003
  • published4 Aug 2026
  • disclosed3 Aug 2026
  • creditStefan Agner

Introduced: 3 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-69244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade aiohttp to version 3.14.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the C HTTP response parser error handling. An attacker can cause the application to crash or become unresponsive by sending a specially crafted malformed chunked response.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by setting the environment variable AIOHTTP_NO_EXTENSIONS=1 to use the Python parser instead of the C extensions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1