CVE 6.3 MEDIUM

Excessive read buffering DoS in http.client_CVE-2025-13836

6.3 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

Description

When reading an HTTP response from a server, if no read amount is specified, the default behavior will be to use Content-Length. This allows a malicious server to cause the client to read large amounts of data into memory, potentially causing OOM or other DoS.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-13836
Source PSF
Published Dec 1, 2025 at 18:02
Modified Dec 1, 2025 at 19:00

Affected Product

Vendor Python Software Foundation
Product CPython
Affected Versions Python Software Foundation CPython 0

References

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