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HIGH7.5

PYSEC-2026-1101

AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-1101 — aiohttp: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'aiohttp>=3.13.3'

Details

### Summary A zip bomb can be used to execute a DoS against the aiohttp server.

### Impact An attacker may be able to send a compressed request that when decompressed by aiohttp could exhaust the host's memory.

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Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/2b920c39002cee0ec5b402581779bbaaf7c9138a

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Affected packages

PyPI/aiohttp
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.13.3
Fixpip install --upgrade 'aiohttp>=3.13.3'

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