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High 7.5Published Jul 8, 2026

CVE-2026-59939httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python.

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 0.32.0, httplib2 performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate in _decompressContent in httplib2/init.py, allowing a malicious or compromised HTTP server to return a small compressed payload that expands to an arbitrarily large size in memory and causes MemoryError or OOM-kill in the client process. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0.

CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-409
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Not given
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Aug 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
httplib2_project httplib2
httplib2_project:httplib2
before 0.32.0
NVD

References

  • patch
  • release-notes
  • exploit, vendor-advisory

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