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high 8.7

CVE-2026-128132 json

AIOHTTP: WebSocket receive queue limits bypassed by small or compressed messages

published 6d ago modified yesterday also EUVD-2026-125765 , GHSA-5rmc-48h2-hvcm

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository aio-libs/aiohttp. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
8.7
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.4, the WebSocket reader continues parsing frames already received after the receive queue pauses the transport, and empty messages are not counted toward the queue size. With permessage-deflate, one read of compressed frames can add many megabytes of decompressed messages to the receive queue. A remote peer can send many small or compressed messages faster than the application consumes them and cause excessive memory use in a server or client. This issue is fixed in version 3.14.4.

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Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-14).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi aiohttp
<=3.14.3
3.14.4

Affected products

  • aio-libs aiohttp

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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The maintainers of aio-libs/aiohttp published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.