Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting aiohttp package, versions [,3.14.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-AIOHTTP-18517004
  • published4 Aug 2026
  • disclosed3 Aug 2026
  • credit4THêNē

Introduced: 3 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-59881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-863  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade aiohttp to version 3.14.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the WebSocket client. An attacker can cause unexpected decompression of WebSocket frames by sending frames with the RSV1 bit set without proper negotiation, potentially leading to increased CPU or memory consumption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1