CVE-2026-61541 (GCVE-0-2026-61541)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-21 21:21
Modified
2026-09-23 19:07
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CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
Zapros, a Python HTTP client, prior to version 0.14.0 is vulnerable to denial of service when an application requests content from an untrusted server, or follows a redirect to one, because a malicious response containing an excessive number of chained `Content-Encoding` values causes Zapros to construct a deeply nested decompression chain that consumes excessive resources. Version 0.14.0 patches the vulnerability by limiting responses to five content-encoding layers and raising `DecodingError` when that limit is exceeded. As a workaround, applications can add response middleware that inspects the `Content-Encoding` header and rejects responses containing more than a safe number of encoding layers.
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