CVE-2025-13836 (GCVE-0-2025-13836)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-01 18:02 – Updated: 2026-03-03 14:41
VLAI
Title
Excessive read buffering DoS in http.client
Summary
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.
Severity
6.3 (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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.10.20 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.15 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.13 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0 , < 3.13.11 (python)
Affected: 3.14.0 , < 3.14.1 (python)
Affected: 3.15.0a1 , < 3.15.0a3 (python)
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