Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pywebtransport package, versions [,0.11.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYWEBTRANSPORT-15202484
  • published4 Feb 2026
  • disclosed1 Feb 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Feb 2026

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pywebtransport to version 0.11.1 or higher.

Overview

pywebtransport is an An async-native WebTransport stack for Python.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the _parse_capsules() function due to missing HTTP/3 capsule size limits. An attacker can exhaust system memory resources by sending capsule payloads exceeding default maximum size.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1