Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting python313-httplib2 package, versions <0.22.0-160000.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-PYTHON313HTTPLIB2-18823099
  • published15 Aug 2026
  • disclosed4 Aug 2026

Introduced: 4 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-59939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-409  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 python313-httplib2 to version 0.22.0-160000.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python313-httplib2 package and not the python313-httplib2 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 0.32.0, httplib2 performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate in _decompressContent in httplib2/init.py, allowing a malicious or compromised HTTP server to return a small compressed payload that expands to an arbitrarily large size in memory and causes MemoryError or OOM-kill in the client process. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1